watergate

Hello all. I have been interested in the Watergate Affair for some time now and just recently I noticed a rather good Podcast about this very subject on the Slate website...

I'm surprised there isn't a thread on this already (if there is, I can't find it) http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/new-details-come-to-light-in-watergate-scandal-970735683642 Just goes to show what a bunch of criminals the Republicans really were under Tricky Dicky, and how much they...

Nixon was impeached...A political act. Did Nixon actually break the law? These were part of a different thread (President Trump: Part II), so I moved them here.

Judge Robert Bork has died. He was famous for being nominated as a justice of the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1987, but the Senate rejected the nomination. He was also famous for carrying out Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" during the Watergate scandal. Two other officials...

They share a byline for the first time in decades... Interesting statement. Then, they back it up. If the truth be told, Nixon's worst enemy was Richard Nixon himself. And while there were others who have done far worse in political office, particularly in an increasingly powerful...

a counterfactual moment here. Let's assume Richard Nixon's "plumbers" manage to slip past the security at the Watergate Hotel and are thus never caught. How does that change American politics and the world? Note to mods: If this isn't appropriate for this subforum, then move it at your...

No, not the actual audio. Haldeman was also taking meticulous notes during the famous 18.5 minute gap on the tape where Nixon was discussing the Watergate break-in. Someone noticed that the notes are also missing that period of time, and they are using some new technology to perhaps discover the...

On the evening of August 8, 1974, the networks announced that they would carry a message from the President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon. According to the networks, the president was expected to announce his resignation from office. Three days earlier, Nixon released transcripts from...

Can anyone tell me how accurate this is? and and And A lot of you are going to hate the source for all this, but let's not get into killing the messenger. I'm not saying these claims are accurate; I'm saying I don't know, and I'd like to know if someone can either substantiate them or rebut...

This week was a weird one in the news: First, we learned the identity of "Deep Throat," the secret source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's articles regarding the illegal activities of the Nixon White House. That W. Mark Felt, the number two man at the FBI, was the one who leaked the...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=806123 I guess we have to give this a little more time for confirmation of Felt's story, but all of the pieces, all of the little bits of the mystery man's profile revealed to us over the years by Woodward and Bernstein, seem to fit. He is also extremely...

This is my thread for abstract discussion of relatively philosophical issues about political shenanigans. I would prefer people keep trolls, flames and ad hominems to other threads. I can only Ignore offenders, but I'd be pleased if people managed to firewall this thread from the unpleasant...

Today, 9 August 2004, is the 30th anniversary of the resignation of Richard M. Nixon from the office of President of the United States. It is unfortunate that the historical reasons for the resignation have been clouded in the national consciousness. Few people know why Nixon got caught up in...

There's probably a thread on this already but I couldn't find it: 2 GOP staffers pilfered memos, investigators find Two Republican staffers breached lax electronic security and distributed thousands of Democratic memos about judicial nominees to the GOP, a Senate probe finds. BY HELEN DEWAR...