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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Watergate

In this file photo taken on August 9, 1974, the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, bids farewell to the White House staff. (Consolidated News Pictures/AFP)
June 18, 2022, 6:20 pm
50 years on, journalist who uncovered Watergate still wonders why Nixon did it
Bob Woodward says the then-incumbent was a sure win for the 1972 elections; half a century later, people have yet to crack psychology behind act
By Chris Lefkow
In this file photo taken on August 9, 1974, the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, bids farewell to the White House staff. (Consolidated News Pictures/AFP)
June 18, 2022, 8:04 am
Sole woman on Watergate prosecution team compares scandal to Trump’s Jan. 6 hearings
Jill Wine-Banks tells of sexism and barriers; says world has changed since Nixon faced hearings, but committee doing ‘brilliantly’ with compelling storytelling
By AFP
Former US president Richard Nixon. (photo credit: National Archives & Records Administration, public domain)
September 10, 2018, 3:36 am
Watergate memories spring to life with Trump’s troubles
As Trump mulls firing ‘enemy’ officials, Nixon’s onetime fixer warns of an ‘unchecked president who is inclined to abuse his powers’
By Calvin Woodward and Nancy Benac
Hillary Clinton listens during commencement at Wellesley College May 26, 2017 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images/AFP)
May 27, 2017, 2:10 am
Clinton delivers stinging attack on Trump at graduation speech
Defeated Democratic candidate implicitly compares president to Nixon
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaking at an event in the Kennedy Garden of the White House, May 1, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
May 13, 2017, 5:26 pm
Trump tapes? If they exist, they could spell trouble
From the problematic Nixonian echoes to Congress’s right to demand recordings, the president has little to gain from documenting his conversations
By JAKE PEARSON
Then president-elect Donald Trump with then president Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Washington DC on November 10, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
March 5, 2017, 8:17 pm
Trump demands Congress probe alleged Obama power abuse
Request comes after US president levels unsubstantiated claim his predecessor tapped phones at Trump Tower during 2016 campaign
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Julie Pace
In this Nov. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama awards former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Bradlee died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
October 22, 2014, 7:02 am
Ben Bradlee, editor who brought down Nixon, dies at 93
Washington Post chief stuck by reporters Woodward and Bernstein as they followed the Watergate scandal all the way to the White House
By Nancy Benac
Helen Thomas (photo credit: AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
July 20, 2013, 5:47 pm
Journalist Helen Thomas, who said Jews ‘should get the hell out of Palestine,’ dies at 92
Veteran White House correspondent covered 10 presidents and was known for her fiery manner, but her career came to an end over anti-Israel remarks
By AP and ToI Staff
In this May 22, 1973 file photo, then acting White House counsel Leonard Garment briefs the media at the White House on President Nixon's statement about the Watergate affair in Washington. Garment died Saturday, July 13, 2013 in New York City at age 89. (photo credit: AP Photo/File)
July 16, 2013, 12:23 pm
Ex-Nixon adviser Leonard Garment dies in NY at 89
Later clients included televangelist Oral Roberts and financier Marc Rich
By Deepti Hajela
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