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Watergate

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  • News

  • Justice Department argues against historian Luke Nichter's efforts to unseal Watergate testimony (6-4-12)
  • Watergate records release? (6-2-12)
  • Biography of Editor Keeps Watergate Twists Coming (5-1-12)
  • Woodward rejects new Watergate claims (4-30-12)
  • Robert Redford to Produce a Documentary About Watergate (4-2-12)
  • Texas A&M professor seeks to unseal Baldwin Watergate testimony (2-10-12)
  • At Nixon library, the old game of hardball against a new view of Watergate (12-14-11)
  • Nixon Watergate testimony set for release (10-12-11)
  • Stanley Kutler lawsuit forces Nixon Watergate testimony released (7-29-11)
  • Nixon library offers new take on Watergate scandal (3-31-11)
  • Roger Morris backs new book by Watergate revisionist Len Colodny in which Nixon comes off as a victim of neocons (10-25-09)
  • Watergate Figure John Dean Threatens to Sue Historian Over Damaging Tape Recordings (7-10-09)
  • John Dean Slams "Revisionists" and Nixon Foundation in Talk at Library (6-23-09)
  • New York Times journalists admit: 'We missed Watergate' (5-26-09)
  • Stanley Kutler attacked by historian Peter Klingman in frontpage NYT news story (2-7-09)
  • Bush gives medals to Watergate figure Chuck Colson and others (12-10-08)
  • Watergate Revisionism: Fox Journalist Expiates John Mitchell (4-23-08)
  • Ex-F.B.I. Chief's Book Revisits Watergate (3-9-08)
  • Nixon library's changes start with Watergate (7-8-07)
  • Robert Redford Reflects on Watergate Film (2-15-06)
  • "Did gay bashing by the prosecutors cause the Watergate cover-up?" (8-16-05)
  • Commentary: Historians

  • Ken Hughes: Nixon's Biggest Crime Was Far, Far Worse than Watergate (6-15-12)
  • Conrad Black: The War on Nixon (6-14-12)
  • Robert Mann: Is the Washington Post Whitewashing Criticism of Its Watergate Coverage? (6-13-12)
  • Max Holland: What Director Alan Pakula’s Papers Reveal About Watergate (6-12-12)
  • David Greenberg: The Watergate Wars Just Ended (6-8-12)
  • Max Holland: New Questions About Deep Throat in ‘All the President’s Men’: Watergate Revisited (5-1-12)
  • KC Johnson: The Nixon Library's Watergate Exhibit (4-11-11)
  • Jon Wiener: At the New Watergate Gallery, the Truth Finally Wins Out (4-5-11)
  • Maarja Krusten: Why Aren't All the Nixon Tapes Now Available? (9-16-10)
  • Donald Ritchie: How the New York Times (and Almost Everyone Else) Missed the Watergate Scandal (5-28-09)
  • Luke A. Nichter: John W. Dean III and the Watergate Cover-up, Revisited (4-20-09)
  • Rick Shenkman: The Watergate Transcript Controversy: The Story Behind the Story (2-5-09)
  • Stanley Kutler: My Response to the New York Times (2-6-09)
  • Rick Perlstein: "I didn't like Nixon until Watergate" (8-1-07)
  • Kevin Smant: Is the Republican Party the Party of Watergate as Rick Perlstein Claims? (1-4-06)
  • David Greenberg: Maybe Now the Watergate Conspiracy Theories Will Finally Go Away (6-2-05)
  • Keith Olson: Did Nixon Approve the Watergate Break-In? (8-8-05)
  • Rick Shenkman: Remember Watergate? (8-8-05)
  • Mark Feldstein: The Myth of the Media's Role in Watergate (8-30-05)
  • Allan Lichtman: The Lessons of Watergate: It Could Happen Again (6-2-05)
  • Joan Hoff: How Neo-Conservatives Helped Bring Down Richard Nixon (2-21-05)
  • Timothy Burke: Hooray for Watergate (12-12-03)
  • Tom O'Malley : Deep Throat: The Man, His Voice, and the Mystery of His Anonymity (8-16-02)
  • Commentary: People Involved

  • Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was Far Worse than We Thought (6-8-12)
  • Frank Gannon: An Addition to the Watergate Bookshelf (3-9-08)
  • Bob Woodward: Writing an End to Watergate (Re: Jerry Ford) (12-27-06)
  • John Dean: The Story Behind the Bogus History of Watergate Presented in Silent Coup (7-22-06)
  • Jonathan Aitken: My Personal Watergate Memory (8-1-04)
  • Commentary: Media

  • R. Emmett Tyrrell: Nixon v. Johnson ... A Watergate Footnote You Won't Read About in Woodward and Bernstein (6-14-12)
  • Robert Nedelkoff: The Last Of The Watergate Cubans Speaks (10-31-09)
  • Michael Isikoff: Haunted by the Dean of Watergate (6-13-09)
  • John Taylor: 30 Years After Watergate -- What We Need to Remember (3-31-04)
  • Obits

  • Henry S. Ruth, Who Helped Lead Watergate Prosecution, Dies at 80 (3-27-12)
  • Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Watergate Figure and WWII Ace, Dies at 94 (10-8-11)
  • William Saxbe, Attorney General During Watergate Inquiry, Dies at 94 (8-25-10)
  • Bernard Leon Barker dies in Florida (6-5-09)
  • W. Mark Felt, Deep Throat of Watergate, Dies at 95 (12-19-08)
  • E. Howard Hunt, Agent Who Organized Botched Watergate Break-In, Dies at 88 (1-24-07)
  • Book Reviews

  • Jim Cullen: Review of Thomas Mallon's "Watergate: A Novel" (Pantheon, 2012) (3-8-12)