because whether you had voted for nixon, whether you were a republican, an independent, a democrat, an unfilliated, you felt that the rule of law had finally been carried out. that congress had acted responsibly. that the other institutions of government had done their job. the supreme court. so the courts had done their job. the prosecutors had done their job. the congress had done its job. so even if the president hadn't, our system of government worked. and i think that -- and people renewed their commitment to the idea that the rule of law was more important than party and than any other single person. that's what came out of it. we rediscovered this about ourselves as a nation. we discovered initially when the constitution was written but we didn't really have a chance to rediscover it, and i think we did rediscover it. so i think what happened was we were healed by this process. we reconnected to our commitment to the rule of law. and then you had president ford coming and then shattering that commitment to the rule of law. i don't think there was a healing. i don't agree with that at all. a