Archives probing Watergate notes for hidden clues

It seems history won't rest until someone fills in that 18 1/2-minute Watergate gap.

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No bidders for Watergate Hotel

The Watergate Hotel, part of the complex made famous by a presidential scandal, failed to attract any bids at auction Tuesday and was taken back by the lender that held the $40 million note on it.

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Ex-NY Times journalists: We fumbled Watergate tip

The reporter rushed up to his editor, thunderstruck by what the FBI's acting director had just let him know: The former attorney general — maybe even the president — was complicit in the Watergate break-in two months before.

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Fred Thompson Aided Nixon on Watergate

Fred Thompson gained an image as a tough-minded investigative counsel for the Senate Watergate committee. Yet President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not too bright, ally, according to White House tapes.

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Thirty-five years after Nixon was forced to become the only US president to resign, government investigators remain determined to find out the extent of knowledge of the raid on the Democratic National Committee's offices in Washington.

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Then, this week, days before Beyler was scheduled to present his findings to the Texas Forensic Science Commission in a public meeting Friday, Perry made a move so blatantly political that it was stunning even for a candidate locked in a tight primary battle.

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ACORN- Journalist Sting - Two Reporters- Like Watergate Scandal?

I remember when there were two young reporters who were informed by an FBI employee, an informant who called himself DeepThroat.

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WHO exactly was the competition in the race to be the most trusted man in America? Lyndon Johnson? Richard Nixon?

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"Watergate figure John Dean, who once spent eight years embroiled in a libel suit against a publishing house, is now threatening to sue a college history professor..."

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On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence...

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The government is opening another window into Richard Nixon's shattered presidency.

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Best-selling journalist Bob Woodward has found the topic for his next book: The Obama administration. And apparently that has the Obama White House circling the wagons.

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How dumb are they?

On his radio show G GORDON LIDDY made the following statement: "Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then."

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For 37 years Robert Smith and Robert Phelps watched from the sidelines as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were showered with Pulitzers, book and movie contracts and fame for their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal.

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The Iran-Contra Affair of the 1980s was the "missing link" connecting Watergate and the national security scandals of the 1970s to the restoration of the imperial presidency under George W. Bush and Dick Cheney this decade.

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When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States.

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As Illinois' junior U. S. Sen. Roland Burris turns a deaf ear to a chorus of voices calling for him to vacate the seat formerly occupied by now-President Obama, I am reminded of Dr. Seuss.

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Scholarly feuds seldom end amicably, and nearly 35 years after President Richard M. Nixon resigned, a dispute involving his Watergate tapes would seem to be no exception.

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THE WHOLE ARTICLE IS WORTH READING.

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Whatever its other legacies, the Bush administration will be remembered for its contemptible disregard for the law in the post-9/11 war on terrorism.

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There are many problems with Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard's film adaptation of the play by Peter Morgan, but the main one is the subject matter itself: British television talk show host David Frost's lengthy interview with the disgraced former president Richard M.

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One of the fastest ways to raise eyebrows in politically savvy company is to suggest that Richard Nixon was not the villain of Watergate. Everyone knows that Nixon himself set loose the Watergate burglars and then oversaw the attempted cover-up that followed.

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This question has also consumed me since the recent passing of "Deep Throat," W. Mark Felt, a personal hero of mine since I was in high school, and part of the reason I originally went into journalism.

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W. Mark Felt, who was the No. 2 official at the F.B.I. when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat, the most famous anonymous source in American history, died Thursday. He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa, Calif.

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W. Mark Felt, who was the No. 2 official at the F.B.I. when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat, the most famous anonymous source in American history, died Thursday. He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa, Calif.

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W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as "Deep Throat," became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died yesterday. He was 95.

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Mark Felt, the man who helped bring down President Richard Nixon as the infamous "Deep Throat" for investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, died at his Santa Rosa home Thursday afternoon surrounded by family.

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I believe it was Charles Barkley who said, "I'm no role model."

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The real Caroline Cushing Graham—who's played by actress Rebecca Hall in the movie—talks to The Daily Beast about her romance with Frost, drinks with Richard Nixon, and what the movie gets wrong.

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