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Politics Jul 13

How response to Watergate tapes 50 years ago contrasts with today’s political climate

By Lisa Desjardins, Elizabeth Summers, Saher Khan

Politics May 17

An image of men gathered around a set of microphones talking to each other.
What the Senate Watergate hearings showed about America

The hearings, which started in May 1973, led to several historic moments — and the resignation of an American president a year later.

By Dan Cooney

Politics Feb 21

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Revisiting the Watergate scandal with an ‘enormous number’ of new revelations

It will be 50 years this summer since Watergate, when five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters and set off a series of investigations that led to the resignation of then-President Nixon. A new book looks at how…

Nation Nov 27

William Ruckelshaus is sworn in as the first Environmental Protection Agency Administrator by Chief Justice Warren Burger as Jill Ruckelshaus and President Richard Nixon look on, December 4, 1970. Courtesy The Nixon Library and Museum/Handout via REUTERS
Ruckelshaus, who famously defied Nixon in Watergate firing, dies at 87

His moment of fame came in 1973, as a deputy attorney general, when he choose to resign rather than carry out Nixon’s unlawful order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

By Gene Johnson, Associated Press

Politics Aug 22

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Secret Tapes Listen in on Nixon Presidency Under Grips of Watergate Scandal

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