Watergate , exactly.
Watergate obviously comes to mind as a famous example.
Watergate is a great example of where reporting revealed serious government misconduct.
Watergate committee uh the house in peachman inquiry hundreds of historians and thousands of journalist journalist
Watergate in years didn't really want to think about it wanted to leave it in the past but I found I had no choice because
Watergate uh somebody who's with these deep mental
Watergate uh and I think that the bottom line on that is that
Watergate that was worried that Nixon was going to destroy the papers so uh
Because of the post-Watergate reforms, we know more.
I was a Watergate junkie as a kid.
I mean Watergate was a conspiracy.
The night of Watergate , Nixon was in the Bahamas, or his body double was.
We had Watergate , right?
Ben Fried: The Watergate defense, I guess actually.
books include worse than Watergate conservatives without conscience and broken government how Republican rule
I ordered the Watergate break-ins and then manipulated the Nixon White House
headquarters where the Watergate uh uh break-ins occur uh I quickly when the
to order uh the Watergate Breakin and then to not once but twice the second
involved in ordering the Watergate Breakin what happened at the Watergate was the direct result of information
who covered Watergate has so aptly put they are the gift that keep on giving uh
through the lens of Watergate and his abuse of power I don't think you can get away from that uh I think he is a better
And taking on a risk like Watergate was a huge brand risk but also a brand win in the long run for the "Washington
cause and leading figure in Watergate that I had actually ordered the Watergate
was time to tell the truth about Watergate and not uh and I totally reject his feeling that former members
the 37th anniversary of the bungled Watergate Breakin and which is quite
little studio apartment at the watergate and there was a message at the desk mrs ford called well i didn't really know mrs ford and i
Washington DC where I worked at the Watergate Hotel famous not for the food
But digging into the process of the pre-Watergate , pre "All the President's Men" version of the Washington Post,
It was kind of a flip on the Watergate thing.
If you go all the way back to Richard Nixon and Watergate and the Vietnam War, the government lost a lot of credibility here in this country.
that in those many years I picked up more information about Watergate than I
I have found cooperation certainly the the major theme of of Watergate hasn't changed at all there are a group of
surprised me that I once thought that the lessons of Watergate would last
wine and we went up to our suite at the watergate and we called 203-226-3804 well i put rich little on the phone as
didn't we had thank God you know thanks to Watergate and the Pentagon papers and covering the you know the world's Global
but for the for the scandal of course however the Watergate Hotel had the
I grew up and earliest came to political consciousness in the Watergate period when you had a kind of sequence of events that defined a scandal.
Vietnam and Watergate .
Essentially beginning with Vietnam and Watergate , it follows this exact same thing.
Because the crime itself, the Watergate break-in, made no sense whatsoever.
Wisconsin was at the Washington Post and I moved there the week of the Watergate Breakin so it was a nice four years to
be working there in fact I moved to Washington the week of the Watergate break and and left as they were publishing the final days so I went
Once the Sumner Simpson papers got out, they unlocked a new industrial Watergate .
But I think that you look back in history, the press was under attack during the Watergate investigation.
Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, talks about how he spoke to a class at a very prominent university once and said, how would you do Watergate now?
to people for why we can be trusted-- why we're not some great kind of Watergate -type conspiracy and all we really want to do is read your emails.
And to set the scene, this is the night of the Watergate break-in.
I joined in April of '72, six weeks before the Watergate break-in.
In the training, my first question to Carl was about his troubled relationship with his Watergate partner, Bob Woodward and to my surprise Carl put his foot in his mouth so
ever would have employed that what happened is much worse and much of what happened in Watergate as I explain in