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Can the Jan. 6 hearings save America?

History will judge these hearings by the result: Will Trump and his minions finally face some kind of justice?

Salon · Jun 9, 2022

VIEWPOINT 1: 50 years later, the imprint of Watergate isn’t all negative

The 50th anniversary of the June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in — in which burglars inspired and funded by President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign attempted to bug the Democratic National Committee offices — stirs memories of a sorry chapter in American history.

Tribune News Service · Jun 9, 2022

VIEWPOINT 2: It’s time to disclose federal contractors’ political contributions

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Tribune News Service · Jun 9, 2022

Ghost of Watergate: Is Jan. 6 different?

Let's hope the Jan. 6 committee can lay out the story in such stark terms

Salon · Jun 6, 2022

Trump’s bid to cling to power ‘beyond Nixon’s imagination’, Watergate duo say

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write in new book foreword that bid to overturn election made Trump ‘our first seditious president’

The Guardian - US · Jun 6, 2022

Watergate Committee hearings may be both an inspiration and a hard act to follow

Fifty years from now, when Americans look back on the riotous break-in at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will it have as much impact as memories of the Watergate scandal continue to have today?

WEKU · Jun 6, 2022

Can televised hearings bring the truth about January 6 to the US public?

The first of six congressional hearings will start on Thursday but emulating the impact of 1973’s Watergate sessions will be hard in today’s fractured media and political environment

The Guardian - US · Jun 5, 2022

‘I’m living in the bubble’: the man who helped bring Nixon down, 50 years on

John Dean speaks on the 1972 Watergate break-in and why he has never been more concerned about US democracy than now

The Guardian - US · Jun 5, 2022

‘18 1/2’: Yes, another Watergate movie, but this one’s fun and totally fictional

A stenographer finds the missing Nixon tape and encounters plenty of oddballs on her way to releasing it in the subversive comedy.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 3, 2022

What 5 previous congressional investigations can teach us about the House Jan. 6 committee hearings

Six public hearings to be held in June by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection will attempt to answer the question of whether former President Donald Trump and his political allies broke the law in seeking to overturn the 2020 election results.

The Conversation · Jun 2, 2022