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“Gaslit” casts a sympathetic eye to marginalized characters in the Watergate farce. The actors make up for the narrative's flaws.

Starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, the Starz limited series focuses on Martha Mitchell, whose life was ruined by the scandal.

FBI Deputy Director Paul M. Abbate’s remarks to the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives in Miami, Florida

What’s behind the Bureau’s bashing of its director, former San Antonio judge William Sessions? Go ask Alice.

It seems that important people involved in either the FBI or in the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s (and slightly before) liked to use their first initi...

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Michael Dobbs brings the Watergate scandal back into focus in his latest book, “King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: An American Tragedy.”

Government Executive email Joe Biden has inherited a department plagued by scandal, just as Gerald Ford did in 1974. Law professor at Fordham UniversityThe Atlantic President Joe Biden is facing problems Gerald Ford would have appreciated. Like Ford in 1974, Biden has come into office following a president accused of criminality. Both Biden and Ford inherited a Department of Justice plagued by scandal and well-grounded charges of politicization. Both had to choose a nominee for attorne...

The Atlantic The Man Who Should Be Merrick Garland’s Role Model The new attorney general has inherited a department plagued by scandal, just as Edward Levi did in 1975. May 9, 2021 Wikipedia / The Atlantic President Joe Biden is facing problems Gerald Ford would have appreciated. Like Ford in 1974, Biden has come into office following a president accused of criminality. Both Biden and Ford inherited a Department of Justice plagued by scandal and well-grounded charges of politicization. Both h...

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 27, 1978, 51 construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground. On this date: In 1791, the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel Morse, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. In 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in A-minor. In 1822, the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Gr...