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Politico
April 29, 2018
President Richard M. Nixon, belatedly responding to a subpoena that had been issued in July 1973, said on this day in 1974 that he would make public the transcripts of 46 White House conversations related to the Watergate affair. In explaining why, up to that point, he had defied the subpoena, Nixon citedÃâà...
CNN
April 27, 2018
(CNN) A lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee over interference in the 2016 election summons another Watergate-era specter: the DNC's 1972 lawsuit filed against the Nixon campaign over the Watergate burglary. There are obvious similarities between the two. But the 1972 lawsuit endedÃâà...
Observer
April 26, 2018
In that incestuous company town on the Potomac, the gold standard for scandal for the last 45 years has been Watergate, the infamous imbroglio that took down President Richard Nixon. In a ham-handed effort to cover up a relatively minor, if embarrassing crime—a black-bag break-in at the DemocraticÃâà...
Newsweek
April 26, 2018
The class of '74 was known as the Watergate Babies; the election that ushered them into office took place some three months after President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace to avoid impeachment after the sabotage efforts against his Democratic rivals during the 1972 presidential campaign.
New York Times
April 19, 2018
The break-in at the Watergate occurred on June 17, 1972, and for many months afterward, nothing seemed to change. Nixon won some major political victories, including his famous visit to China and two arms-control deals with the Soviets. He was re-elected in the biggest presidential landslide in the 20thÃâà...
The Guardian
April 18, 2018
So ferocious was the public and official outcry that within 12 days, a new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, was indeed appointed, and would win access to the Nixon tapes before the supreme court. In the meantime, the Senate select committee on Watergate continued its televised hearings, uncoveringÃâà...
Salon
April 16, 2018
When Nixon was invoking his privilege, the former president was trying to hide something — a so-called "smoking gun" in which Nixon was heard asking his officials to try to convince the CIA to request that the FBI stop investigating the Watergate burglary on the grounds of national security (that justÃâà...
NPR
April 16, 2018
John Dean was White House counsel for Richard Nixon, and his testimony at the Watergate hearings helped bring down the Nixon administration. But he turned down book deals and media appearances until the investigation was over. John Dean, welcome to the program. JOHN DEAN: Thank you.
NBCNews.com
April 13, 2018
During Watergate, as assistant Watergate special prosecutors, we thought a lot about why the public and Congress needed to know what we knew about President Richard Nixon. We found ways to reveal the facts back then that special counsel Robert Mueller can use now along with some additional onesÃâà...
The Independent
April 13, 2018
One of the reporters who broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s says that it is clear President Donald Trump is involved in some form of cover up. Carl Bernstein, who investigated former President Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate hotel break-in, told CNN's Don Lemon that he thinks theÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 12, 2018
He'd resolved to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating his involvement in Watergate, more than three months before the Saturday Night Massacre, when Cox was eventually dispatched. It was only a matter of time until Nixon would find a suitable pretext to give him political cover—andÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 11, 2018
Despite that, these (or any further) developments are unlikely to break the lockstep Republican support for Trump in Congress and put him into the untenable position faced by Richard Nixon in Watergate. To paraphrase the late Lou Reed, these are different times. Trump replicating Nixon's infamousÃâà...
University of Virginia
April 11, 2018
However, unlike Michael Cohen, Dean was the White House counsel. He was not Nixon's personal attorney. Nixon kept his defense attorneys in the dark during Watergate and they were not subjects of the investigations. One of his personal attorneys, Herb Kalmbach, did go to prison for illegal campaignÃâà...
Mediaite
April 11, 2018
Morning Joe opened the show on Wednesday with a montage of President Donald Trump's comments on the FBI raid of his lawyer Michael Cohen — alongside remarks from former President Richard Nixon over what he dismissed as the “so-called Watergate affair.” Trump's remarks came during a meetingÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 5, 2018
During Watergate, President Richard M. Nixon wouldn't listen to his lawyers either — as my late husband, Leonard Garment, found out while he was working in the White House as Nixon's legal counsel at the time of Watergate. True, Nixon was himself a skillful lawyer, so he was ignoring his lawyers' legalÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 4, 2018
She entertained out of an opulent flat in the Watergate complex, raised money for Chinese refugee charities and maintained the mysterious aura of a svelte ... But after Nixon undertook his historical opening to China, Chennault herself joined in, helping the Reagan administration in the 1980s as a “shuttleÃâà...
American Free Press
April 4, 2018
Colodny, the author of Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, has tangled with Woodward and the Watergate story for close to 30 years. Colodny's work documents a thesis that Watergate was not about a break-in at all. There were break-ins, which Colodny believes were ordered by Nixon's WhiteÃâà...
Newsweek
April 3, 2018
... a Watergate scandal client told Newsweek Monday. Andrew Hall, who served as former White House counsel John Ehrlichman's attorney more than 40 years ago during President Richard Nixon's corruption scandal, said he would advise Trump not to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller's team.
Merion West
March 27, 2018
Mr. Shepard has written two books about the aftermath of President Richard Nixon's resignation and how the case was mishandled by the prosecution. He works on organizing forums of former Nixon staffers. Mr. Shepard spoke with Merion West to break down the similarities between the WatergateÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 23, 2018
Merritt says the last of his three one-on-one meetings with Richard Nixon occurred in July 1972, just after news of the Watergate burglary broke. He found Nixon in tears, fearing for the survival of his presidency. But that wasn't the reason Nixon had asked him there. He wanted to talk about aliens. This isÃâà...
New Republic
March 20, 2018
Many of these bureaucratic resisters were moderate Republicans from the Eisenhower era. They had their counterpart in politicians like Howard Baker, the long-serving Republican Tennessee senator, who led the charge against Nixon in the Watergate hearings by raising the question that got to the heartÃâà...
CNN
March 20, 2018
John Dean, who served as White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon during Watergate, said President Trump has already exceeded everything Nixon did and is engaged in a "public obstruction of justice." Source: CNN. CNN Original Series on CNNgo. Watch Full episode on. Anthony BourdainÃâà...
The Hill
March 15, 2018
It was Republicans, not Democrats, who ultimately compelled Nixon to resign from the presidency. In February 1973, the Senate voted unanimously to create a special committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The resolution authorized the committee of four Democrats and three Republicans toÃâà...
The Verge
December 31, 1999
Nixon famously resigned as president in 1974 — the only president to do so in American history — after being connected to a break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC. While most people know how the story ends, fewer are familiar with the twistsÃâà...
