And on Thursday we saw the bookend of this Watergate-like tipping point, when the former Prince Andrew was arrested by the British police... The Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down began in June 1972, but Nixon didn’t resigned until August 1974.
Moral scandals have long shaped Western politics, but for decades they functioned as tests of institutional strength and the credibility of ethical discourse ...Watergate exemplifies this principle ... Even the highest office was subject to accountability.
He described it as “my decision, not Kissinger’s.”Why was this testimony kept secret?The seven-page section was deemed so sensitive that it was withheld even from most Watergate prosecutors and the grand jury itself.
“Because once the Prime Minister knows, there will have to be an enquiry, like Watergate... Watergate, it turns out, was not the scandal Nixon feared most ... And Watergate keeps proving it — one worm at a time .
MartinWeil, one of hundreds being laid off at The Post, has worked on local news there since 1965, witnessing the paper’s rise and now retrenchment ... .
Lessons from history are relevant today, quips the passionate—and perhaps idealistic—KeithKrum. If he succeeds in this venture, Washington may gain one more museum to preserve that—The Watergate Museum. Of ....
This is the same paper that exposed Watergate, yes—but Watergate succeeded not because of a single leak, but because documents, testimonies, and institutional fractures aligned against Richard Nixon... Watergate was a triumph of journalism over power ... .