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NEWS ABOUT: Watergate

Watergate stories: 17 news summaries
Nixon's missing 18 1/2 minutes

 Notes Scoured 
 for Watergate Key 

Hope to fill in gaps with cutting-edge forensics

Nov 19, 09 8:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Forensic scientists think their latest tools could solve one of the enduring mysteries of American politics: what was said in the 18 1/2 minutes missing from the Watergate tapes? The answer may lie in the yellow notepad on which Nixon's chief of staff, HR Haldeman, took notes on his meeting... More »

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Watergate • Richard Nixon • forensic science • forensic experts • Watergate missing tape • forensic Watergate

Plan Could Divine Missing Watergate Minutes, CSI-Style

Archivist pushes plan to uncover lost pages' imprints

Jul 28, 09 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Watergate hobbyist has a plan to discover what was discussed during the 18½ minutes erased from a taped conversation between President Nixon and his chief of staff after the break-in. Phil Mellinger doesn’t want to examine the tape itself; that's been done without success. He says the answer... More »

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Watergate • Richard Nixon • National Security Agency • mystery • tape • National Archives • paper • documents • Phil Mellinger

(Newser) - An auction today of the storied Watergate Hotel drew more than 150 spectators, media attention from around the world, and not a single bidder willing to pony up the necessary $25 million, reports the Washington Post. The German bank that foreclosed on the property took back the 12-story hotel and... More »

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Watergate • Washington DC • Richard Nixon • auction • hotel

Watergate Hotel
on Auction Block


Jul 19, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Political scandal icon the Watergate Hotel will go to the highest bidder Tuesday when creditors auction off the foreclosed property, reports the Washington Post. The 251-room hotel, scene of a burglary that eventually brought down a president, has been empty since 2007 as its owners scrambled to pay $40 million... More »

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Watergate • auction

(Newser) - Talk about an eventful life. Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate burglars as well as one of the leaders of the Bay of Pigs invasion, is dead at age 92, the Miami Herald reports. Barker worked for the CIA as a protege of Howard Hunt, flew bombers in WWII,... More »

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Watergate • Cuba • Richard Nixon • JFK assassination • break-in • John F. Kennedy Jr. • CREEP • Bernard Barker • Bay of Pigs

 Times Nearly Scooped 
 Post on Watergate 

37 years later, reporter reveals FBI chief Gray tipped him off

May 25, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Watergate scandal made the careers of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the story. But the Post nearly got scooped by the New York Times, according to ... the New York Times. Nearly 37 years after the fact, a reporter briefly at the Times says he... More »

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New York Times • Watergate • Washington Post • Bob Woodward • Richard Nixon • Mark Felt • L. Patrick Gray

 Watergate's 
 'Deep Throat' 
 Dead at 95 

W. Mark Felt was secret source who helped expose Richard Nixon's abuses of power

Dec 19, 08 3:18 AM CST
(Newser) - The FBI agent who helped bring down Richard Nixon has died at his California home at the age of 95, the New York Times reports. W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat"—the anonymous source who supplied crucial leads to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about White House abuses... More »

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FBI • Watergate • Bob Woodward • Carl Bernstein • Deep Throat • Mark Felt

(Newser) - A photo of Richard Nixon with Rod Blagojevich has surfaced in what Time Out Chicago describes as an ironic twist of fate and a reminder that politicians should rely on better role models. “In 1980, most twenty-something men probably pined to bump into one of the Beatles or maybe... More »

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politics • Watergate • impeachment • Richard Nixon • resignation • Illinois • Rod Blagojevich • scandal • wiretapping

OPINION

 Mac Hypocritically Mum 
 on Felonious Pal Liddy 

Republican won't cough up details despite hammering Obama on Ayers

Oct 23, 08 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bad enough for a presidential candidate to pal around with a “lawless radical,” Steve Chapman writes in the Chicago Tribune, but worse to clam up about it even as you blast your opponent for the same thing. That’s exactly where John McCain is over dealings with G.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Watergate • extremists • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers • G. Gordon Liddy

 Book: Dean Ordered
 Watergate Break-In 

Ex-White House counsel rips claim as 'pathetic'

May 19, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House counsel John Dean ordered the Watergate break-in that ended up bringing down his own president, according to a new book on the political bungle of the century. Author James Rosen, Fox News Washington correspondent, said he reached that conclusion after extensive research for his book, The Strong Man:... More »

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Watergate • Richard Nixon • Senate Watergate committee • Nixon impeachment • John Dean • John Mitchell

 GOP Operative 
 Involved in 
 Spitzer Sting 

But Roger Stone might have gotten involved too late

Mar 25, 08 4:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A GOP operative who was a teenage participant in the Watergate affair played a role in uncovering Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution habit, Talking Points Memo reports. But Roger Stone was likely too late to the scene to deserve credit for breaking the story. Stone, who was recently involved in leaving... More »

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FBI • Watergate • Miami • Eliot Spitzer • Roger Stone

OPINION

McGovern: Oust Bush, Cheney

Former Dem. nominee rails against duo's 'high crimes and misdemeanors'

Jan 6, 08 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Now is the time to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney, declares former Democratic nominee George McGovern in a passionate, if quixotic, plea in the Washington Post. The duo have committed a plethora of "high crimes and misdemeanors," says McGovern, including illegal wiretapping, systematic torture, and substantial... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • Dick Cheney • torture • Watergate • Bush impeachment • impeachment • Richard Nixon • warrantless wiretapping • George McGovern • Nixon impeachment • domestic wiretapping • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Thompson Balanced in Probes

Thompson split difference between partisanship and truth

Aug 27, 07 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - With a critical role in several high-profile congressional investigations over three decades, Fred Thompson struggled to balance investigating targets and defending them. In its effort to illuminate the presidential hopeful’s political biography, the Times looks at Thompson’s role in the Watergate hearings, the probe into Reagan’s CIA... More »

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investigation • Fred Thompson • Watergate • Bill Clinton • Richard Nixon • scandal

Nixon Library Ends Watergate Whitewash

Tears down Watergate room

Jul 8, 07 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Nixon's library may be backing off its insistence that its honoree was not a crook. The private museum is poised to become a federal institution, and its new director is working to add some nuance to the fiercely pro-Nixon exhibits—starting with the Watergate room. "I can't run... More »

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Watergate • Richard Nixon • executive privilege • Nixon Library

CIA Dirty Deeds Detailed in Documents

Illicit 'family jewels'
of Watergate era declassified

Jun 27, 07 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Assassination plots, illegal wiretapping and spying at political conventions were among the lowlights illuminated in hundreds of pages of CIA documents from the Watergate era declassified yesterday. Illicit acts known in the agency as the "family jewels" included a $150,000 CIA payment to a mobster to kill Fidel... More »

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CIA • Congressional investigations • Watergate • Richard Nixon • oversight • Michael Hayden • family jewels

Texas Builds an Ultimate Archive

Jun 17, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Start with 48 Gutenberg Bibles—yes, count 'em, 48. Move on to the corrected proofs of Joyce's Ulysses and then to part of Kerouac's original manuscript for On the Road.  Then finish up with Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate notes. These items and much, much more are in the Harry... More »

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Watergate • literature • money • Harry Ransom • University of Texas • James Joyce • Jack Kerouac • archive • book

Congress Probes Private White House E-Mails

May have breached post-Watergate law

Apr 10, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Use of private e-mail accounts by White House officials is being probed by Democratic lawmakers who charge that they were employed to avoid scrutiny. Accounts set up by the Republican National Committee are intended to keep political activities separate from official business, but they were used in planning the firings... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • politics • RNC • Watergate • Henry Waxman • BlackBerry • scandal

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