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Nixon's ability to raise unlimited funds for his Presidential Library as the law allowed coupled with abuses the country just witnessed through his Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), were frightening to many.  Funds intended for his campaign were rechanneled to private sleuths to harass opponents. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref><ref>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/woodward-and-bernstein-cant-stop-comparing-clinton-nixon </ref> served on the staff of the House Impeachment panel investigating Nixon's schemes.

Nixon's ability to raise unlimited funds for his Presidential Library as the law allowed coupled with abuses the country just witnessed through his Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), were frightening to many.  Funds intended for his campaign were rechanneled to private sleuths to harass opponents. [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref><ref>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/woodward-and-bernstein-cant-stop-comparing-clinton-nixon </ref> served on the staff of the House Impeachment panel investigating Nixon's schemes.

It was an exciting time for the 26 year old law intern. No casual eavsdropper since the founding of the Republic was privy to the private conversations and decision making in the [[Oval Office]] ofa president with his subordinates in the midst of grave international, national, political, and personal crises'.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H78s9ZbLXCIC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22windowless+room,+trying+to+make+sense+of+the+words+and+to+glean+their+context+and+meaning%22&source=bl&ots=o3nUmlrdPk&sig=hOD7BvlnXjK9pRASsqWyqUxWyx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI9syUu6PNAhUX5WMKHUYlDgkQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=%22windowless%20room%2C%20trying%20to%20make%20sense%20of%20the%20words%20and%20to%20glean%20their%20context%20and%20meaning%22&f=false Living History], Hillary Clinton, Simon and Schuster, 2004, p.68.</ref><ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref>

It was an exciting time for the 26 year old law intern. No one since the founding of the Republic was privy to the private conversations and decision making of president in the [[Oval Office]] with subordinates in the midst of grave international, domestic, and political crises.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H78s9ZbLXCIC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22windowless+room,+trying+to+make+sense+of+the+words+and+to+glean+their+context+and+meaning%22&source=bl&ots=o3nUmlrdPk&sig=hOD7BvlnXjK9pRASsqWyqUxWyx4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI9syUu6PNAhUX5WMKHUYlDgkQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=%22windowless%20room%2C%20trying%20to%20make%20sense%20of%20the%20words%20and%20to%20glean%20their%20context%20and%20meaning%22&f=false Living History], Hillary Clinton, Simon and Schuster, 2004, p.68.</ref><ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-05/how-richard-nixon-created-hillary-clinton </ref>

After Nixon's resignation several Watergate reform laws came into existence. Bill and Hillary Clinton, fresh out of law school and embarking on their own political careers as offspring of the [[McGovern-Fraser reforms]] were well aware of these new laws:

After Nixon's resignation several Watergate reform laws came into existence. Bill and Hillary Clinton, fresh out of law school and embarking on their own political careers as offspring of the [[McGovern-Fraser reforms]] played a part in the creation of these new laws:

*Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act limiting contributions and expenditures;

*Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act limiting contributions and expenditures;

*creation of the [[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) to regulate abuses;

*creation of the [[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) to regulate abuses;