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(Archived document, may contain errors) 171 March 10, 1982 IS THE SOVIET GAS PIPEUNE ASTEEL NOOSE INTRODUCTION In one of Lenin's more familiar quotes, he boasted that capitalists would sell him the rope with which to hang themselves.
The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another. Whereas we understand how a growing country in the late 19th century could be brought together by open collusion of business interests, we give little attention today to how changing commercial opportunities during the Vietnam War might have torn apart the political accommodations that followed World War II. Watergate’s place in this history today is but a hairline fracture to the New Deal Order; a symbol rather than a decisive moment.