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After it was revealed that Nixon had installed a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office, his administration refused to grant investigators access to the tapes, leading to a constitutional crisis. [5] The televised Senate Watergate hearings by this point had garnered nationwide attention and public interest. [6]
[4] [5] Among the passengers killed were Illinois congressman George W. Collins, CBS News correspondent Michele Clark [6] and Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. [7] The crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 737, which had entered airline service nearly five years earlier in February 1968. [8]
In this latest book, Dean, who has repeatedly called himself a "Goldwater conservative", built on Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience to argue that the Republican Party has gravely damaged all three branches of the federal government in the service of ideological rigidity and with no attention to the public interest or the ...
Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a central figure in U.S. regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba.
The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's initial report on the Watergate break-in through the resignations of Nixon Administration officials H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman in April 1973, and the revelation of the Oval Office Watergate tapes by Alexander Butterfield three months later.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
In 1992 John and Maureen Dean sued Nixon "plumber" G. Gordon Liddy for libel, after Liddy sought to support the core claims in Silent Coup.Liddy's testimony was the first time he spoke publicly in detail about the Watergate break-in, as he had refused to cooperate with investigators during the Watergate scandal.
The Watergate Hotel's "Scandal Room" Every key at the Watergate tells guests there's "no break in required" to access their room, but for guests of room 214, references to the scandal don't end there.