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Sometime after midnight on Saturday, June 17, 1972, Watergate Complex security guard Frank Wills noticed tape covering the latches on some of the complex's doors leading from the underground parking garage to several offices, which allowed the doors to close but stay unlocked. He removed the tape, believing it was not in itself suspicious.
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
On August 5, 1974, several of President Richard Nixon's recorded-on-audiotape Oval Office conversations were released. One of them, which was described as the "smoking gun" tape, was recorded soon after the Watergate break-in, and demonstrated that Richard Nixon had been told of the White House connection to the Watergate burglaries soon after they took place, and approved a plan to thwart the ...
Wills was born in Savannah, Georgia on February 4, 1948. His parents separated when he was a child and he was primarily raised by his mother, Margie. [2]After dropping out of high school in 11th grade, Wills studied heavy machine operations in Battle Creek, Michigan [3] and earned his equivalency degree from the Job Corps. [4]
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 ...
9/11 Quotes • "Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11." — President Obama in ...
Shortly after 7pm while the plane was in flight over Scotland, it was destroyed. There were no survivors. A total of 270 people died, including the flight’s passengers, crew, and 11 townspeople.
[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]