Watergate 
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1/24/2021
Will Eugene Goodman Share the Fate of Frank Wills?
by Adam Henig
Congress and the nation have celebrated the heroic actions of Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman, who distracted a mob to give members of Congress time to reach safety. When his momentary fame fades, Goodman deserves better than another unexpected hero, Watergate security guard Frank Wills.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
1/3/2021
Carl Bernstein Says Latest Trump Tapes Are ‘Far Worse’ Than Watergate
“This is the ultimate smoking gun tape,” Bernstein said. “It is the tape with the evidence of what this president is willing to do to undermine the electoral system and illegally, improperly and immorally try to instigate a coup.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/15/2020
James Flug, Who Helped Block Nixon Nominees and Investigated Watergate, Dies at 81
James Flug, an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, played a significant role in Senate investigations and in the successful political opposition to Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
12/8/2020
Cleaning House: Watergate and the Limits of Reform
by John A. Lawrence
The reform agenda of the "Watergate Babies" class elected to Congress in 1974 achieved important successes but failed to prevent either the rise of the imperial presidency or increased partisan polarization.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/20/2020
Watergate Led to Reforms. Now, Would-Be Reformers Believe, So Will Trump
Jack Goldmith and Robert Bauer, legal veterans of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations respectively, are proposing a slate of reforms to limit executive branch powers. They hope to match the legislation passed after Watergate and the revelations of intelligence community abuses exposed by the Church Committee.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/10/2020
Think The Trump Tapes Are Worse Than The Nixon Tapes? Think Again.
by Leonard Steinhorn
Recordings of the President reveal not only racial bigotry but a cynical indifference to the rule of law and a belief that any means were justified to prevail over political adversaries. No, we're talking about Richard Nixon.
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SOURCE: Business Insider
7/2/2020
Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency
by Daniel Bessner
Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party.
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SOURCE: Washington Decoded
4/18/2020
Feldstein's Deplorable Review
by John O'Connor
John O'Connor offers a rebuttal to Mark Feldstein's criticism of his new book Postgate.
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SOURCE: Washington Decoded
4/11/2020
John O’Connor Jumps the Shark
by Mark Feldstein
Mark Feldstein is unconvinced by a new book on Watergate.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/10/2020
Joe Biden’s Big Vision for America: He Wants to Restore Faith in Government
by Gabriel Glickman
Read this historian's take on how Joe Biden's political past compares to his political present.
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SOURCE: Just Security
1/29/20
The Obituaries of Republicans Who Opposed Nixon’s Impeachment
by Ryan Goodman
Regardless of whether the congressmen voted for or against the articles of impeachment, their legacies were largely defined by this one moment.
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SOURCE: Politico
1/22/20
Why No GOP Senator Will Stand Up to Trump
by Garrett M. Graff
Barry Goldwater had the power to tell Nixon it was all over. But don’t expect a repeat this time.
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12/22/19
Does truth matter less than it did in 1974?
by Roy E. Finkenbine
At the moment of the impeachment and pending trial of another president, there are still lessons to be learned from Watergate. One of these is the sad story of Earl Landgrebe.
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12/22/19
Jimmy Carter: Watergate’s Final Victim
by Michael A. Genovese
Today, at 95, Carter is the longest-lived president in history, as well as the nation’s longest-retired president. Facing several health-related challenges, perhaps it is time to reflect on the rise, fall, and rise of James Earl “Jimmy” Carter.
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12/17/19
The Secret Plan to Force Out Nixon
by Tim Naftali
A newly released diary shows House Republican leaders pledging to oust the president months before he resigned. Why did they back down?
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/13/19
In 1974, one congressman lay awake at night, agonizing over impeachment
The name Walter Flowers has vanished from historical memory but on the eve of impeachment, Americans should remember him.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/2/19
Republicans Defending Trump on Impeachment Should Fear the Judgment of History
by Michael Luo
This week, as the current Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump, these obituaries might serve as a reminder to the committee’s Republican members that the consequences of their decisions in the coming days will likely extend far beyond the next election.
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SOURCE: Vanity Fair
11/27/19
Trump's Toadies Should Take Note: Watergate Says Everyone Goes Down
by Kevin M. Kruse
The lesson Nixon imparts to today’s POTUS loyalists is that courts of law and of public opinion will judge them harshly.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/19/19
The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President
by Michael Koncewicz
Before Watergate became a story that dominated the national media in the spring of 1973, there were individuals within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the IRS that took dramatic steps to block Nixon’s attempts to politicize their work.
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SOURCE: The Hill
11/9/19
Presidential cooperation: History's perspective on scandal and controversy
by Stephen W. Stathis
The American experience is littered with scandals. When presidents have been unwilling to cooperate with an investigation, the resulting confrontation is often ugly and long-remembered, as the escalating Ukraine scandal undoubtedly will be.
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