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This special weekly section includes the paper's Books Page. Watergate brings to mind Richard Nixon, whose cover-up of his underlings' crimes brought the nation to a constitutional crisis before he was forced to resign. If, as he said, he was not himself a crook, he was at least a boss of crooks who lied to the country and disgraced the presidency. For some reason, revisionist history hasn't got around to Jimmy Carter yet. Certainly, he's more worthy of our admiration than that Watergate scalawag historians now call statesman.