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Watergate

August 2024

  • Over-the-shoulder look at two women reading newspapers with the headline 'Nixon Resigning' in front of the White House

    Fifty years after Nixon resigned, a key player is still angry about his pardon

    Elizabeth Holtzman, House committee member who reviewed impeachment articles, recalls ‘gross political act’

April 2024

  • Sidney Blumenthal

    If cover-up is the real crime, Trump’s hush-money charges have a Nixonian ring

    Sidney Blumenthal
    Trump’s New York trial is only superficially about his tawdry sex life and really about his ultimate victim: the constitution

May 2023

  • ‘The stars keep on coming’ … White House Plumbers leads, from left, Justin Theroux, Judy Greer, Lena Headey and Woody Harrelson.

    TV review
    White House Plumbers review – you’ll give up on Woody Harrelson’s Watergate drama after one episode

    It may have an absolutely star-packed cast, but this meandering political farce will rapidly lose your interest – unless you’re an aficionado of US political scandals from the 70s
  • Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux in White House Plumbers

    The watcher
    White House Plumbers: this Watergate drama’s cast is dazzling. Unfortunately, it’s terrible

    Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux lead an all-star production with a gigantic budget. But why do the two leads seem to be acting in totally different shows?
  • Comer at a press conference to discuss the business dealings of Biden's family members in May 2023.

    A House Republican wants to prove Biden is compromised – but where’s the evidence?

    James Comer claims he has a whistleblower who will make ‘Watergate look like jaywalking’, but is yet to deliver

January 2023

  • ‘I’m becoming legendary’ … Kathleen Turner.

    The G2 interview
    ‘I’ll never drink like that again’: Kathleen Turner on booze, health and falling in love with Michael Douglas

    Body Heat made her a star in the 80s. Then, after a string of hit movies, illness forced her to take a step back. The actor talks about her fights with directors, her rage at white male privilege and her return to the screen as a foul-mouthed political lobbyist

July 2022

  • Willa Fitzgerald (connie) and John Magaro (Paul) in Dan Mirvish's 18 1/2 film

    18½ review – offbeat comedy about sex, lies and the notorious gap in the Watergate tape

    The Watergate saga is fictitiously reimagined in this kooky caper that ditches thrills in favour of meandering oddball fun

June 2022

  • Richard Nixon's farewell to the White House staff.

    Politics Weekly America
    What does ‘Watergate’ teach us 50 years on?: Politics Weekly America

    As Americans mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate affair, Jonathan Freedland wonders: had it happened in today’s political climate, would Richard Nixon have resigned? And what can a new round of televised public hearings into a different president accused of undermining democratic elections learn from the Watergate hearings?


  • Richard Nixon announces his resignation on 8 August 1974. Woodward and Bernstein helped to uncover Nixon’s campaign of political spying and cover-up.

    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’
  • Former White House aide John Dean is sworn in by the Senate Watergate committee chairman, Sam Ervinon 25 June 1973.

    ‘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

April 2022

  • Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell in Gaslit

    TV review
    Gaslit review – a star-powered Watergate drama that grips and doesn’t let go

  • Martha Mitchell Smiling<br>Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon's attorney General John Mitchell is shown smiling.

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

February 2022

  • Dwight Chapin and Richard Nixon in 1969

    Dwight Chapin on his former boss: ‘Richard Nixon was not a crook’

    The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon

January 2022

  • Carl Bernstein on the phone, with Bob Woodward, during the Watergate scandal.

    Chasing History review: Carl Bernstein’s pre-Watergate world

    Before he helped bring down Richard Nixon, the reporter grew up in a school of hard knocks. His memoir is a treasure

June 2021

  • Richard Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes, in April 1974.

    ‘Nixon is much more serious than Trump’: Michael Dobbs and the tale of the White House tapes

  • Richard Nixon and Donald Trump: two eras of Washington politics.

    Before my time
    ‘Nose to the grindstone’: how Simon Winchester covered Watergate for the Guardian

April 2021

  • LIDDY<br>G. Gordon Liddy is shown during a live broadcast of his radio talkshow on Thursday, February 19, 1998, at the Holiday Inn in Mundy Township, Mich. More than 400 people turned up this week for the first of two live broadcasts of Liddy's radio show. Gov. John Engler was on Liddy's guest list, and two waitresses from Hooters showed up at Thursday's show with a bucket full of chicken wings. (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jane Hale)

    G Gordon Liddy obituary

    Instigator of the 1972 Watergate office burglary that led to Richard Nixon’s downfall, he went on to become a rightwing shock jock

March 2021

  • G. Gordon Liddy<br>FILE - In this Oct. 15, 1974, file photo, G. Gordon Liddy wears a beard and a mustache upon his release in Washington. Liddy posted a $5,000 bond after serving 21 months in jail. Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, has died at age 90. His son, Thomas Liddy, confirmed the death Tuesday, March 30, 2021, but did not reveal the cause. (AP Photo/File)

    G Gordon Liddy, mastermind of Watergate burglary, dies aged 90

    Political operative went to prison before becoming a popular radio talkshow host

January 2021

  • Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.

    Can Trump do a Nixon and re-enter polite society? Elizabeth Drew doubts it

  • Reporter Neil Sheehan, who broke the Pentagon Papers story, at the New York Times in 1971.

    After 50 years, the Pentagon Papers give up their final secrets

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