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The Alarming Effort To Rewrite the History of Watergate

For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.
by Michael Koncewicz via Made By History on March 24, 2025
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The Little-Known Group Behind Watergate's Dirty Tricks

A college group pioneered the dirty tricks that led to Watergate. Fifty years later, the tactics still poison politics.
by Jonathan van Harmelen via Made By History on August 8, 2024
Store window selling shirts and ties mentioning the "Nixon Squeeze"

The Burglaries Were Never the Story

The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.
by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via n+1 on July 13, 2022
Richard Nixon giving a speech

Why We’re Still Obsessed With Watergate

The reasons that Nixon’s scandal endures when other presidents’ disgraces have not.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on June 19, 2022
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How Watergate and Citizens United Shaped Campaign Finance Law

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.
via Retro Report on June 17, 2022
Political cartoon with Nixon and his inner circle tied up with wires, each pointing the finger at another.

8 Cartoons That Shaped Our View of Watergate — And Still Resonate Today

Herblock, Garry Trudeau, and others created memorable cartoons that skewered Nixon and Watergate, making the era a boom time for political satire.
by Michael Cavna via Washington Post on June 16, 2022
Former attorney general John N. Mitchell appears before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 1973.
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Primetime Watergate Hearings Helped Make PBS a National Network

Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.
by Amanda Reichenbach Lehman via Made By History on June 16, 2022
Black and white side by side of Presidents Nixon and Trump

Watergate's Ironic Legacy

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
by Stuart Streichler via Boston Review on June 16, 2022
1973 Time magazine article entitled "The Watergate Three" with a photo of Woodward, Bernstein, and Sussman.

All the Newsroom’s Men

How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history.
by Joshua Benton via Nieman Lab on June 7, 2022
Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Betty Ford walking away from White House

Regime Change, American Style

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.
by Christopher Caldwell via First Things on May 20, 2022
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'Gavel-to-Gavel': The Watergate Scandal and Public Television

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.
by Amanda Reichenbach via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 3, 2017

The Myth of Deep Throat

Mark Felt wasn’t out to protect American democracy and the rule of law; he was out to get a promotion.
by Max Holland via Politico Magazine on September 10, 2017

How Nixon Would Have Tweeted Watergate

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.
by Justin Sherin via Politico Magazine on June 24, 2017

5 Reasons This Still Isn’t Watergate

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.
by John A. Farrell via Politico Magazine on May 30, 2017

The Search for Donald Trump’s Own Watergate

Some call it "Russiagate," others "Comeygate." What are we really saying when we apply the Nixonian suffix?
by Zachary Jonathan Jacobson via The New Republic on May 16, 2017

Five Reasons Why the Comey Affair Is Worse than Watergate

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.
by James Fallows via The Atlantic on May 12, 2017
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The Myth of the Media's Role in Watergate

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.
by Mark Feldstein via HNN on August 30, 2004
Richard Nixon surrounded by thumbs up emojis.

Hero of 2024: A Half-Century Later, Richard Nixon Was Finally Vindicated

Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.
by Dan Friedman via Mother Jones on December 27, 2024
Chief Justice Earl Warren (left), President Richard Nixon (center), and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right).

I Argued ‘U.S. v. Nixon.’ The Supreme Court’s New Ruling on Presidential Immunity Appalled Me.

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.
by Philip Allen Lacovara via The Bulwark on July 8, 2024
Richard Nixon's face superimposed onto the January 6th protests.

Richard Nixon Would Have Loved the Court’s Immunity Decision

I would know.
by John Dean via The Atlantic on July 3, 2024
Richard Nixon.

He Told Richard Nixon to Confess

Most ministers were silent about Watergate. Why was one evangelical pastor different?
by Daniel Silliman via Christianity Today on July 1, 2024
William F. Buckley Jr. at a press conference.

An Implausible Mr. Buckley

A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.
by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on April 17, 2024
Former President Nixon addressing the press

The Saturday Night Massacre at 50

What actually happened in one of the most disruptive episodes of the supposed Watergate scandal?
by Declan Leary via The American Conservative on October 23, 2023
Spiro T. Agnew button.

The Wildest Month of the US Presidency, Part I

The Spiro Agnew Edition.
by Garrett M. Graff via Doomsday Scenario on October 10, 2023
Gerald Ford, University of Michigan.

“Half Right and Half Wrong.”

There's more to Gerald Ford, "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch,” than Watergate.
by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on September 13, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg speaking to the press.

Daniel Ellsberg’s Life Beyond the Pentagon Papers

After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.
by Ben Bradlee Jr. via The New Yorker on June 16, 2023
Cartoon of Henry Kissinger blowing out birthday candles on a cake depicting his criminal legacy.

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on May 15, 2023
Photoshopped image of a smiling President Richard Nixon wearing a white cartoon sticker that reads "Pardon ME! Gerald"

The Pardon of President Nixon: Annotated

President Ford’s unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon created political controversy. It also tarnished Ford’s own reputation with the American public.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on September 8, 2022
President Richard Nixon and Vice President Gerald Ford in the White House, along with their wives, First Lady Pat Nixon and Betty Ford

Gerald Ford and the Perversion of Presidential Pardons

In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power.
by James Bovard via The American Conservative on December 29, 2020
Rudy Giuliani speaking at a Trump rally
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Republicans Won’t Speak Out Against Trump Because They’re Afraid Politically

And history says they have a reason to be.
by Michael Koncewicz via Made By History on November 20, 2020
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