Watergate scandal

=== Japan ===
In August 1973, then–Prime Minister [[Kakuei Tanaka]] said that the scandal had "no cancelling influence on U.S. leadership in the world". Tanaka further said, "The pivotal role of the United States has not changed, so this internal affair will not be permitted to have an effect."<ref name="Freed1973">{{Cite news |last=Freed |first=Kenneth J. |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vp8rAAAAIBAJ&pg=6874%2C2181142 |title=Watergate and Its Effects on Foreign Affairs Discussed |date=August 15, 1973 |work=[[Nashua Telegraph]] |access-date=November 25, 2014 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=21 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114215246/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vp8rAAAAIBAJ&pg=6874%2C2181142 |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 1975, Tanaka's successor, [[Takeo Miki]], said at a convention of the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]], "At the time of the Watergate issue in America, I was deeply moved by the scene in the [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary Committee]], where each member of the committee expressed his own or her own heart based upon the spirit of the American Constitution. It was this attitude, I think, that rescued American democracy."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Halloran |first=Richard |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xx8qAAAAIBAJ&pg=7253%2C5576885 |title=Watergate Effects Abroad Are Slight |date=March 20, 1975 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=November 25, 2014 |page=13 |via=Google News Archive |archive-date=April 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421144741/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xx8qAAAAIBAJ&pg=7253%2C5576885 |url-status=dead }}</ref>