Posts Tagged ‘Watergate’
The GOP convention convulses…in 1976!
It was not yet morning in America. Nor was it mourning in America. That had already happened, in 1963 (JFK), and in 1968 (MLK, RFK). Four years after Richard Nixon…
Read More“Bigger than Watergate”
“Bigger than Watergate!” The Watergate scandal and the Washington Post reporting (thanks. Bob and Carl) that brought down a president seemed like the apex of journalistic enterprise and achievement in…
Read MoreRecalling Watergate and “Woodstein” after 50 years
June 17, 1972 was not Dec. 7, 1941, nor was it Sept. 11, 2001, or Jan. 6, 2021. But it remains a date that will live in infamy, and in…
Read MoreChasing Carl Bernstein
Journalists of my generation and acquaintance are having a memoir moment. Peter Osnos, who covered Prince George’s County, Md. for the Washington Post before I did and went on to…
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