EST is the Eastern standard time and is 5 hours behind the GMT. EST = GMT/UTC -5. EDT and EST are parts of the Eastern Time Zone that is observed in 17 states of the country lying in the eastern region. In the northern parts of this time zone, clocks are turned back by an hour during spring to save daylight.
Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian politician and diplomat, suppressed nationalistic and democratic trends in Central Europe but was also the architect of a diplomatic system which kept Europe at peace for a century.
We forget history very fast in the U.S. The watergate scandal was important because it showed the executive branch of government is not above the law. This also curtailed and had the legislative branch put more checks on what the president can do in the name of National Security.