May 21, 2010 | News, Nixon TV, Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/hZIF0oSXBJE] May 24, 2010: Even forty years later, Watergate remains America’s greatest political scandal. Dozens of books have been written by principal Watergate players; hundreds of books and articles have been written by various...
Dec 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
In July I wrote here about the uncertain status of the Watergate Hotel, best remembered, of course, for the break-in that ultimately brought about the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. At that time, the hotel had been put up for auction by Deutsche Bank, after...
Oct 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon, Watergate
In June I wrote here of the death of Bernard L. Barker, one of the five men whose arrest at the Watergate complex on the evening of June 17, 1972, resulted in the unfolding of the scandal that claimed the Presidency of Richard Nixon. At that time I noted that of the...
Jun 24, 2008 | Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV, Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/gICgyHw95jg] June 24, 2008: Geoffrey Shepard, former Associate Director of the White House Domestic Council, talks working in the Nixon White House and Watergate.
Aug 9, 1974 | News, Nixon Speeches, Nixon TV, Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/32GaowQnGRw] August 9, 1974: President Nixon bids farewell to the White House staff.
Aug 8, 1974 | News, Nixon Speeches, Nixon TV, Watergate
[youtube https://youtu.be/IwQMpSxRPvc] August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon resigns the presidency.