Watergate

Chuck Colson's Memorial Steeped In Prison Themes

Posted 05.17.2012

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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Prison Fellowship founder and former Nixon aide Chuck Colson was memorialized Wednesday ...

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Charles Colson Remembered At National Cathedral

AP | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A memorial service will honor the life of Watergate figure-turned-evangelist Charles Colson. Colson died April 21 at the age of 80. He ...

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How Woodward and Bernstein Came to Interview Grand Jurors

Barry Sussman | Posted 05.04.2012

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After almost 40 years of denials by Woodward and Bernstein, it was revealed this week that Bernstein had interviewed a Watergate grand juror in 1972. I have known about this for a long time, as I'm the editor who gave them the assignment.

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Bob Woodward Rejects New Watergate Claims

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Washington Post, Watergate, Bob Woodward Watergate, Deep Throat, Media News

UPDATE: Jeff Himmelman defended his reporting to Politico on Monday. He hit out at Woodward's claim that he omitted a 2010 interview with Bradlee that...

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Major WaPo Figure Reflects On Watergate, Deep Throat

New York Magazine | Posted 04.29.2012

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One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office. He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee an...

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Quote/Unquote

John O'Toole | Posted 04.26.2012

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My favorite quote remains Deep Throat's "follow the money" because it not only explains Watergate. It explains everything. Except possibly love and sex, and they really shouldn't be explained. Or studied. Or worse yet, turned into a how-to book or a documentary.

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My Chuck Colson Lesson

Lanny Davis | Posted 04.25.2012

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"You know, I'm the guy who put you on the enemies list -- that was wrong, please forgive me." I looked into his eyes and I felt a strange and deep peace. It was eerie. I also saw a profound goodness and spirituality.

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Chuck Colson Dead At 80

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related...

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Did Mark Felt Even Know He Was Deep Throat?

Barry Sussman | Posted 04.12.2012

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I was the editor in charge of the Watergate investigation for the Post; that was my assignment from the day of the break-in and for the following 15 months. I never knew Deep Throat's identity until it was released in 2005. But there are some things I know first-hand.

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Watergate's Lessons for the New media Age

Edward Wasserman | Posted 04.09.2012

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Watergate was a towering moment of heroism, an episode of legendary stature in which journalism's foundational purposes were triumphantly validated and a drift toward despotism was stopped, all thanks to a single-minded dedication to the craft of determined reporting.

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Fed Cleared Of Wild Allegations Related To Saddam, Watergate

Posted 04.03.2012

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By Dave Clarke and Margaret Chadbourn The Federal Reserve did not help the Watergate burglars get cash, stonewall congressional inquiries in th...

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Bruce Springsteen & Wall Street's Wrecking Ball: A Contract With America

Monika Mitchell | Posted 05.30.2012

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Watergate made a mockery of American justice revealing a corruption so deep and pervasive that it "almost had the country brought down by it." For Springsteen and America, the financial crisis has exposed the same.

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Ty Pennington: The Watergate Could Use A Facelift

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Washington Home & Garden Show is coming to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center March 9 through 11, bringing with it tech idea...

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Scott Walker Recall Ad: Democrats Compare Governor To Richard Nixon

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party is out with its first ad in the campaign to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R), comparing the governor to forme...

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Millenials and the Culture of Compliance

Matt Durham | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Political Crimes, Political Scandal, Watergate, Millenials, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney in My Time, Dick Cheney, Politics News

A dangerous moral vacuum exists among our nation's leaders. They know certain things they can always get away with, and certain things they cannot. Indefinite detention? Fine. Infidelity? Your head on a platter.

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Getting Rich In Supposedly Illegal Businesses

Don McNay | Posted 04.22.2012

As a society, it would seem logical that we would want drug pushing, loan sharking and corporate influence peddling to stop. At the very least, we could go back to making it against the law.

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Revealed: Why The FBI Took Down Nixon

Posted 02.16.2012

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The following is excerpted from the new book "Enemies: A History of the FBI" by National Book Award-winner Tim Weiner [Random House, $30.00]: On Ma...

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Deep Throat: Not Such A Hero After All?

miamiherald.com | Glenn Garvin | Posted 04.16.2012

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Kids say the darndest things. Speaking to a college journalism class last week, I learned the students had recently seen the All The President's Men, ...

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Bachmann: Scandal 'Makes Watergate Look Like Child's Play'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 11.18.2011

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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann shared her thoughts on the Solyndra issue today, saying the loan scandal "makes Watergate look like...

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Nixon to grand jury: $100,000 cash contributions and rewarding donors with ambassadorships

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 01.10.2012

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By John Aloysius Farrell, iWatch NewsRichard Nixon's grand jury testimony, with tales of the sale of government appointments; harassment of politica...

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New Details On Watergate Scandal To Be Unsealed

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and NANCY BENAC | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON — Feisty and cagey, ex-President Richard Nixon defended his shredded legacy and shady Watergate-era actions in grand jury testimony t...

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The Mrs. Nixon You Don't Know

The Daily Beast | Posted 01.09.2012

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Ann Beattie's playful and polymorphous new book, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, is unlike anything she has written. Beattie is noted for the ...

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Who Are the Joneser Boomers Keeping Up With?

Bernard Starr | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, The Brady Bunch, Leave It to Beaver, Baby Boomers, Social Change, Social Security, Jones Generation, Bankruptcy, Downsizing, Television Ratings, Economy, Boomerang Generation, Economic Crisis, Adolescents, Mortgage Crisis, Pensions, Jonathan-Pontell, Recession, New Wave, Disco, Television, Marriage, Young Adults, Saving for Retirement, Jonesers, Watergate, Jfk, Fifty News

If you think the Wall Street protests are formidable, watch out when the boomers fully wake up to their plight and mobilize. Then you will know: It's one solid generation to reckon with.

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How to Topple Syria's Assad

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.18.2011

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"Better late than never" is the only thing that could be said about The United States and the EU finally calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

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In the Media, How Many Wrongs Make a Right?

Warren Adler | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Media, Watergate, Richard Nixon, Wall Street Journal, Media News

Years ago, in the wake of Watergate, I wrote a novel titled The Henderson Equation which dealt with the following premise: If media, meaning a...

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