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Vance says it’s ‘crazy’ Watergate ‘took down a presidency’

JD Vance said he does not believe Watergate, if it happened today, would lead to a president’s downfall.

The Independent UK

This Instagram Account Shares Pictures From The 1970s, Shows Why It Was An Era Like No Other

The 1970s are often associated with Vietnam and Watergate, but there was also plenty of glamor between the wild fashion, TV stars like Farrah Fawcett, and the disco era.

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Rangers' Vaclav Cerny escapes ban, warned by SFA after Celtic 'watergate' incident

The National (Scotland)

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COVID-19 and January 6 in the Rear-View Mirror

There are certain geopolitical events that are generation-defining. In my lifetime, I think they would be the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, the election of President Obama, the election of President Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, and January 6. For earlier generations, they would have been Watergate, the moon landing,…

Reason

David Boaz: Libertarianism Is the Intellectual Core of Liberalism

How Vietnam, Watergate, and stagflation supercharged the libertarian movement.

Reason

Can we still handle the truth? Journalism, ‘alternative facts’ and the rise of AI

The credo of Watergate is still relevant: find the best obtainable version of the truth. But doing so is only getting more complicated

The Guardian - AU

Trump’s full statement following FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home: ‘They even broke into my safe’

‘What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee?’

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4 things to watch for in the prime-time Jan. 6 hearing

The Watergate-style hearing will be the first of several meticulously crafted events.

Axios

Dan Stevens shocks The One Show hosts as he calls Boris Johnson a ‘criminal’ who ‘really should resign’

Presenters Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas looked speechless after Stevens’ comment

The Independent UK

Germany’s Watergate: 1950s chancellor used spy agency to infiltrate rival party

Covert flow of information from BND enabled Konrad Adenauer to cement his hold on power, historians reveal

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump's missing seven hours of phone logs during the January 6 insurrection echo Nixon's missing 18 minutes

With the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection homing in on Donald Trump's inner circle, the US Department of Justice is under renewed pressure to finally make its move on the former president.

ABC News

‘They called her crazy’: Watergate whistleblower finally gets her due

Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon’s attorney general who ordered the break-in at the scandal’s heart, was drugged and kidnapped

The Guardian - US

It ‘opened my eyes’: Rep. Jim Costa on the summer of ’73 - Roll Call

He stood in line to get a seat at the Watergate hearings as a young intern during a summer away from the family's California farm.

Roll Call

Trump takes the Watergate path to doom

Trump echoes Richard Nixon's silence — let's hope history repeats itself

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The Guardian - US

Trump sues Hillary Clinton, alleging ‘plot’ to rig 2016 election against him

Clinton, James Comey and others accused of orchestrating Russia conspiracy that makes Watergate ‘pale in comparison’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Even Durham says some media have gone down the rabbit hole regarding his probe

Conservative media joined a certain former president last week whipping up the political right over what they claimed was a smoking gun: proof from an ongoing investigation by special counsel John Durham that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats “spied” on Donald Trump while he was president. Trump called it worse…

The Independent UK

Bigger than Watergate – or a Trump nothing-burger? What’s behind the latest GOP conspiracy theory

Experts say a court filing that has become fodder for Trumpworld’s endless series of accusations against Hillary Clinton raises serious ethical questions, writes Andrew Feinberg

The Independent UK

Trump says Clinton operative spying allegations ‘would have been punishable by death’

‘This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate’ says former president

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Chicago Sun-Times

Trump toilet talk evokes memories of the secretary who erased some of the Watergate tapes

SNEED: Rose Mary Woods’ brother was a Cook County politician who used to regale reporters with stories from the White House when his sister became an asterisk of Watergate history.

The New Daily

‘Stranger than fiction’: Watergate series reveals forgotten players who brought down a president

Unlike 'All The Presidents Men', 'Gaslit' focuses on forgotten characters who helped bring down President Nixon as the Watergate scandal was laid bare.

Salon

Carl Bernstein: "Truth is not neutral"

Pulitzer-winning reporter spins marvelous tales of his early years — and their strange echoes in the Trump era

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: The question is no longer Donald Trump's criminality but whether America will care

America still had the naïve ability to be shocked back on Nov. 16, 1973, when a rambling then-President Richard Nixon stood up before 400 Associated Press journalists. Wallowing in the Watergate scandal, the 37th president joked morbidly about his plane crashing before he could be impeached, then uttered these famous…

The Independent UK

Top Democrat says Capitol riot hearings are going to be like Watergate

Panel member previews daily public hearings throughout 2022

The Guardian - US

Carl Bernstein: ‘Our democracy, before Trump, had ceased to be working well’

The acclaimed journalist talks about life before Watergate, as portrayed in his new book Chasing History, and life after Trump

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