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  • So remove the networks' gavel-to-gavel Watergate-style coverage (those Watergate months were the most warming and wonderful television experience of my life) from the tale.
  • I think that part of what we call gotcha journalism today -- the idea that the function of a reporter is to catch an official in a lie, in a some kind of minor misfeasance -- is partly the result of Watergate. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2001
  • Then there's that claim about Brown II (see link above), the miscite from a Watergate minority report, your inaccuracies WRT SJ, and the repeated claim that a majority "held" that the N.Y. Times could be prsecuted post-conviction in the Pentagon Papers case .... Balkinization
  • Setting aside the crimes behind Watergate, his policies were ill-considered and damaging. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
  • The term entered the political lexicon as a word synonymous with corruption and scandal, yet the Watergate Hotel is one of Washington's plushest hotels.
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  • He drove up to Washington Circle and made a left for the short run down to Senator Chapman's apartment at the Watergate. NIMITZ CLASS
  • The neophyte candidate claimed it was a security project run amok, making the whole affair reminiscent of Watergate: too much money pushing too many imaginative staffers toward too much mischief.
  • Justice Department officials said Arbabsiar approached an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Mexico and inquired about his knowledge of explosives and the possibility of targeting the Saudi embassy in D.C., located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, near the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and across the street from the Watergate office and residential complex. Terror Plot Disrupted
  • The tide swept most of the boxes ashore along the beach near York Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Although the Princeton official's motives were not revealed, the break-in was thought to be an academic Watergate, an illicit attempt to filch information on what the competition was up to.
  • She was wearing the green cloak that Sarah usually wore, and waiting in the place we had appointed, on the terrace near the Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation
  • The old “coverup is worse than the crime” applies with Watergate and it applies here. Think Progress » BREAKING: Five-count Indictment On I. Lewis Libby
  • His involvement in the Watergate evaporated any hope Nixon had for a political career.
  • More precisely, dip into the warm cheese fondue at Watergate Bay's Beach Hut in Cornwall after a morning's surfing.
  • It's not simply the mea culpa he extracts from the US president over Watergate, but the scale of the project (29 hours of conversation, edited down to six), the risk (he sold his shares in London Weekend Television to pay Nixon $600,000 – it was regarded by many as the start of chequebook journalism), and the drama (the real thing is even more compelling than the movie). The Saturday interview: David Frost
  • The song talks about oppression, being trodden upon, and injustice; most people connect that (as Stevie Wonder did) to civil rights, Vietnam, apartheid, Watergate, global starvation, etc., but as my two teachers affirmed, we forget the injustices that are befalling our students and teachers in schools across America. Advocacy
  • I came of age at about the time the Watergate plumbers were jimmying open Daniel Ellsberg's safe and the lock on Frank Mankiewicz's office at the Watergate. What Were They Thinking?
  • After twenty-eight months of investigations, the full-time labors of some 174 staff members, and at a cost of at least $7.7 million, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force has at last come forth with a summary report, as is required under its charter, which provides the public with what is supposed to be the first full statement of all the criminal acts associated with the complexus of Watergate. Black Eyes
  • Conversely, I do have vivid personal recollections of Watergate, which started only a year or two later.
  • The post-Watergate campaign reforms limited individuals to a maximum $ 1, 000 gift to a presidential candidate.
  • Checking city records, Woodward had discovered that among the formal complaints was one from Martha Mitchell, Watergate resident.
  • We had to conduct this confrontation for high stakes in the midest of a Watergate crisis.
  • He drove up to Washington Circle and made a left for the short run down to Senator Chapman's apartment at the Watergate. NIMITZ CLASS
  • He became vice president in 1973 after the resignation of Spiro Agnew - and became president in 1974 after the Watergate scandal led president Richard Nixon to resign. Mourners Say Final Farewell to Betty Ford
  • All decent and patriotic Americans can now only hope that this will reinforce the Post's image as the champion of the Watergate exposure and an example of the integrity of America's fee (oops!) press, and, moreover, that it finally stills those pestiferous agitators, single-payer advocates, peaceniks, and other such rabble-rousers. The Washington Post: Paragon of the Fee Press
  • The whole world was waiting for the outcome of the Watergate affair.
  • In those pre-Watergate years, a certain air of roughish disrepute still clung to journalists as a species.
  • The present US administration alone has generated travelgate, nannygate, sexgate, troopergate, fornigate, whitewatergate (at least that one has a punning reference to the original), and filegate.
  • Pundits said the decadence was the result of disillusion over Vietnam and Watergate; cynics said it was the ­result of too much money pursuing too much free time. Days of ‘Malaise’
  • His antipolitics stump speech, including his promise to “never tell a lie,” was pitch-perfect in a post-Watergate America. No Excuses
  • As you will sure agree, what follows is some of the most illuminating journalism since those two hacks at the Washington Post brought Watergate down on Nixon.
  • The conclusion of Epstein's essay is of continuing relevance to the mythical role imputed to the press in uncovering Watergate.
  • It attacks the fundamental flaws and loopholes in the campaign finance regulatory system adopted in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
  • Instantly small feet scampered into the Watergate from the terrace. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • He wrote one of the more famous resignation letters to come out of the White House, writing on September 8, 1974 that he could not "credibly defend" the pardon of Richard Nixon when others -- from conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War to other Watergate figures -- went unpardoned. Joe Rodota: The Year in Resignations
  • The Watergate investigation received an initial authorization of $ 1. 8 million, adjusted for inflation.
  • Nixon lived long enough after his Watergate humiliation to put his own revisionist spin on his history.
  • He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
  • The highly politicized environment that shaped them was characterized by "hippies, the Vietnam war, revolution, Nixon, Watergate, books that called for change in every way," Mr. Samaras said in a Journal interview. Frenemies: Two Greek Rivals Hold Nation's Fate in Balance
  • She was wearing the green cloak that Sarah usually wore, and waiting in the place we had appointed, on the terrace near the Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • I watched all the watergate hearings (most all anyway) and heard Republicans lie and lie again util Howard Baker called for the truth. McCain: CIA secrecy story just beginning
  • First plain burglary and now Turd Burglary at the Watergate. Think Progress » Early Media Coverage of Goss’s Resignation Dances Around Cunningham Scandal
  • The tide swept most of the boxes ashore along the beach near York Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • She singled out one remarkable shot of Ehrlichman, who would eventually serve 18 months in prison, pointing at and razzing a newspaper headline blaring his involvement in the Watergate break-ins. Nixon at Home, Kissinger on the Beach
  • Krogh recalled, in his memoir of the Watergate era, that Mr. Shulman had occasionally used one-arm push-up competitions to bring levity to difficult moments. Stephen N. Shulman, lawyer who defended Watergate figure, dies at 77
  • The Watergate investigations have already proved that the last U.S. Presidential election was fraudulent.
  • And then on June 17, five men were caught red-handed trying to burgle the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate building.
  • In the Watergate scandal, obstruction of justice was number one in the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
  • He may be out of the anchor chair, but tonight, news hound Tom Brokaw is sniffing around one of the biggest stories of all time, the Watergate scandal, for a new documentary called ‘Tom Brokaw Reports: Deep Throat, The Full Story.’
  • In 1974, when the Watergate revelations were rocking the presidency, the would-be assassin went over the edge.
  • Nixon, under increasing political pressure from the investigations of the Watergate break-in, reluctantly reimposed a freeze in June 1973. Matthew Yglesias » FDR, Reagan and Our Current Predicament
  • In a resignation letter to the president, Mr. terHorst explained that he could not "credibly defend" the pardon when others — from conscientious objectors to the draft, to Watergate co-conspirators — went unpardoned. Ford Press Secretary Made News Himself
  • Then you had Watergate, so there was turbulence and all this sort of sense of the country kind of roiling all the time. CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007
  • Remember when the Washington Post was vilipended and qualified as a gossip column when it published the first article about the Watergate?
  • I dived into the Watergate, hoping to catch a waterman who would row me back here to the Tower, but there were no boats waiting. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • But the comradery wasn't total: Flug's findings for Kennedy led directly to creation of the Senate Watergate Committee, also known as the Ervin Committee. Barry Sussman: Kenneth Dahlberg's Role in Watergate
  • The tide swept most of the boxes ashore along the beach near York Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Nixon was forced to resign when evidence of his involvement in Watergate cover-up emerges.
  • And Nixon in '73 was already being entoiled in the Watergate scandal. CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005
  • If Nixon had survived the "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate, how long would his enemies list have grown, and how emboldened would he have become in spying on political rivals? News industry's depression has spillover implications
  • In the Watergate scandal, obstruction of justice was number one in the articles of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
  • He projected an unpretentious, open image, and his reputation for moral rectitude became a crucial asset for a nation still shocked by the Watergate scandal.
  • Instantly small feet scampered into the Watergate from the terrace. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • In fact, John Dean, former Senator/Nixon advisor/Watergate whistleblower, wrote in an article that the Constitution makes "leading our nation to unprovoked violence" an impeachable AND imprisonable offense. A Positive Agenda: Healthy or Unhealthy for the Progressive Cause?
  • He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
  • I followed the Nixon Watergate stories breathlessly, but the Post has become much too comfortable with error and slipshod (stenographic) reporting. Matthew Yglesias » A Suggested Correction for George Will
  • Nixon would have been impeached and most certainly removed for having "obstructed" the Watergate inquiry. How About an Impeachment Truth Movement?
  • She was wearing the green cloak that Sarah usually wore, and waiting in the place we had appointed, on the terrace near the Watergate. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • I've seen George McGovern and he is a very impressive man and he was an outstanding candidate who missed being our president in large part because he was torpedoed by Eagleton's lying (the forerunning cause of today's thorough vetting process) and the fact that Watergate had only just begun starting to smell on Election Day, 1972. McCain's Hero Petraeus: "I Do Think You Have To Talk To Enemies"
  • This act was deeply unpopular, and implicated Ford in the traumas of Watergate.
  • Deep Throat had been explicit in saying the withdrawals financed the Watergate bugging.
  • Some cognac with a nutty finish may be leisurely consumed at her Watergate apartment.
  • President Bush has even succeeded in emasculating the post-Watergate reform that was supposed to help curb Nixonian secrecy, the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
  • Trying to pretend that this controversy is “really” about the forwarder is about as convincing as trying to pretend that Watergate was “really” about W. Mark Felt and his lack of discretion. The Volokh Conspiracy » Caution About Sending E-Mails — and About Trust
  • He drove up to Washington Circle and made a left for the short run down to Senator Chapman's apartment at the Watergate. NIMITZ CLASS
  • Instantly small feet scampered into the Watergate from the terrace. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Because Watergate has become part of the received national lore—with heroes, villains, and the comforting moral that crime does not pay—we forget that its outcome was not foreordained and that those two years were very suspenseful. The Good Fight
  • It was the reporters' first encounter with Bradlee on a Watergate story.
  • That may sound like thin consolation for a party whose recent trend line looks a lot like the Dow: Not quite as reviled as we were in the aftermath of Watergate? Glass Half Full, Glass Half Empty
  • Thus, these Watergate reforms failed to make government and the electoral process more accountable, democratic or honest.
  • The accusations of dirty tricks and sabotaging of political enemies at the Nixon White House that culminates in a "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate Hotel. Barry Toll

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