Watergate scandal
Nixon thought he’d be the only one to ever hear his secret recordings
Forty years ago today, President Richard Nixon resigned after incriminating tape recordings from a high-tech audio system he installed in his offices came to light. Is presidential decision-making less transparent today, or will secrets always find a way to be heard?
40 Years Later: The Watergate Hearings
Republicans kept up the pressure on the Obama administration this weekend by calling for a special independent counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s monitoring of journalists’ records and the I.R.S.’s targeting of right-wing groups. Talk of overreach and possible criminality have led some in the G.O.P. to make perhaps tenuous comparisons to events 40 years ago. […]
Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
Most of us think of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the good guy general who coined terms like “the military industrial complex.” And Richard Nixon will forever go down in history as the man who said “I am not a crook” but who was, in fact, a crook. But long before Richard Nixon was president and […]
The Legacy of Charles Colson: From Prison to Preaching
Charles W. Colson, Watergate mastermind turned Evangelical leader, died of a brain hemorrhage on Saturday at the age of 80. Mr. Colson, an attorney who joined the Nixon Administration as special counsel, had a close relationship with the dark, brooding President. Colson hired former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt and together the two plotted to […]
Nixon Grand Jury Transcripts Revealed
On August 8, 1974, then President Nixon bid adieu to the White House staff with the famous words, “Au revoir. You’ll see us again.” With a tacit acknowledgement of his role in the Watergate scandal that brought down members of his presidential staff, Richard Nixon resigned at noon the next morning. His resignation was a first time a […]
Former CIA Officer: I Was Asked to Spy on War Critic
In a recent New York Times article, Glenn Carle –a former senior CIA official — said there were at least two occasions when the George W. Bush White House asked intelligence officers to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole. We talk with Carle.