A half-century ago Friday, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex in D.C.’s Foggy Bottom led to an investigation that gripped the country for two years and ...
On the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, one great mystery remains: Who was the top official to approve the illegal entry into the Democratic National Committee headquarters? An obscure tape ...
A New History” and editor in chief of Washingtonian magazine, reexamined popular narratives surrounding the Watergate scandal ...
Former president Donald Trump is asking for a delay in his trial on charges of keeping classified records at his Mar-a-Lago estate in violation of the Presidential Records Act. From 1789 to 1978, ...
One day after Alfred E. Lewis broke the news of the Watergate burglary to Washington Post readers, two young Post reporters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein picked up the story. This article ran ...
at the gate Tourists read the day’s headlines outside of the White House on August 8, 1974, only a few hours before President Nixon would resign on air. (Bettman/Getty Images) Nixon and his aides, for ...
A standard-issue invitation arrived for a party in Washington, D.C., but with an odd addendum—odd, at least, to an out-of-towner. A small-print paragraph advised that the party had “been designed to ...
In a sense, it’s old news. In December 2021, CNN reported that the House’s select January 6 Committee had subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 people. But that was mostly Trump officials, ...
Garrett M. Graff’s Watergate: A New History comes 50 years after the fateful night in 1972 when five burglars were caught in the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the luxury Watergate ...
You’ve heard of the boy who cried “wolf”? Over the last decade or so, Republicans have become the party that cried “Watergate.” ...
The new five-part HBO series White House Plumbers, about the men behind the Watergate break-in, begins just like the movie All the President's Men: The time is the early 1970s. The place is the ...