My father was an avid watcher of the San Francisco ABC affiliate news with Van Amburg.

Day after day, Watergate was a main story.

They always used the same cheap graphic of what was, in retrospect, the Watergate Hotel.

Being five years old, I thought it involved some kind of dam issue, and as I dug a sizable hole in the backyard and built a big-brick Lego dam, I would create my own "Watergate" by loosening the dam a bit to allow the water to escape from one side to another.