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Watergate
the vulture transcript
May 8, 2023
Creating the ‘Buddy Tragedy’ of White House Plumbers “Then the Albany police showed up to party with Woody, and they gave us rides to the hotel with drinks and joints like they were Ubers.”
By Olivia Nuzzi
White House Plumbers Series-Premiere Recap: Idiots All the Way DownWhat if the criminal masterminds behind the Watergate scandal were actually clumsy buffoons? Big, if true.
By Amanda Whiting
Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux Are HBO’s White House Plumbers Up to no good in the trailer for Veep showrunner David Mandel’s new Watergate miniseries.
By Jennifer Zhan
Gaslit Has No Use for HeroesWhen it avoids the sway of its own hyperbole, Starz’s compellingly grimy Watergate miniseries illuminates the coldness and crassness of complicity.
By Roxana Hadadi
Woodward and Bernstein Didn’t Act Alone If not for their competitors, Nixon would probably have survived Watergate.
By Garrett M. Graff
republican party
Jan. 13, 2021
Can Republicans Bounce Back Like They Did After Nixon? The last GOP president to be impeached and disgraced shattered his party.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Oct. 10, 2019
Are We Already Near the Impeachment Endgame? It’s possible Trump’s obstruction will mean House Democrats have to cut to the chase instead of holding thorough impeachment hearings.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Sept. 29, 2019
Will Voters Warm to Impeaching Trump, and Does It Matter? Polling from the Nixon and Clinton scandals shows voters are slow to support impeachment, and the president’s popularity matters more electorally.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Pushing for Impeachment Make It More Popular? There’s some evidence that impeachment proceedings against Nixon damaged his popularity, but it’s unclear if the same would happen to Trump today.
By Ed Kilgore
mueller time
Apr. 17, 2019
Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon Nixon had weaker intraparty support than Trump, who will benefit from likely polarization over the Mueller report.
By Ed Kilgore
mueller time
Mar. 24, 2019
Justice Department: ‘No Harm, No Foul’ on Trump’s Obstruction of Justice Mueller punted to Barr and Rosenstein, who seem to be arguing that if Trump didn’t collude, he would have been crazy to obstruct.
By Ed Kilgore
Republican Solidarity Will Protect Trump From Impeachment History shows that impeachment efforts tend to tighten the bonds between president and party. With Trump’s party controlling the Senate, that’s big.
By Ed Kilgore
the national circus
Aug. 23, 2018
Frank Rich: The Endgame for Trump Comes Into View The tumult of this week hasn’t finished off his presidency yet, but the final stages look closer by the day.
By Frank Rich
The Powerful Myth of the Would-Be President RFK, 50 Years Later Robert F. Kennedy promised a kind of mind-bending coalition of minorities and white working-class voters that progressives still crave.
By Ed Kilgore
Slow Burn Is the Watergate Podcast You Didn’t Know You NeededIt examines in great detail what it was like to live through a major political scandal.
By Nicholas Quah
Netflix Is Eyeing George Clooney–Produced Watergate Series Oscar-nominated Bridge of Spies scribe Matt Charman is writing the eight-episode mini-series.
By Tolly Wright
Flynn Kidnapping Plot Is Like Teapot Dome With a Dash of Treason That a presidential national security adviser might have sold his influence to a foreign government so quickly and cheaply is a very big deal.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Big Political Asset Is Supporters Who Believe Any Negative News Is Fake GOP “base” voters have long regarded the media as “biased” allies of their enemies. It’s taken Trump to convince them any bad news is just made up.
By Ed Kilgore
Frank Rich: Nixon, Trump, and How a Presidency Ends Just wait. Watergate didn’t become Watergate overnight, either.
By Frank Rich
the national interest
May 16, 2017
Comey’s Memo Is the Smoking Gun of Donald Trump’s Watergate A perversion of justice, a threat to the republic, and an impeachable crime.
By Jonathan Chait
Will Republicans Let Trump Curb the Russia Investigation? There are few ways to pursue an investigation of Russia-Trump ties if the administration fights it, so long as the congressional GOP has Trump’s back.
By Ed Kilgore
from the archives
June 28, 2016
Revisiting New York ’s Watergate Series As the scandal crested, we imagined what it looked like.
By Christopher Bonanos
Is Any Water Better for You Than Tap? Assessing the new crop of “enhanced” waters.
By Kathleen Hou
the national circus
Aug. 6, 2014
Frank Rich: Echoes of Watergate Summer A familiar bleakness has settled on Washington.
By Frank Rich
Marco Rubio’s Big Moment Thwarted by Water Break Rubio’s Poland Spring bottle is the new Clint Eastwood chair.
By Margaret Hartmann
ink-stained wretches
Apr. 30, 2012
Bob Woodward on Ben Bradlee’s ‘Residual Fear’ Will a Bradlee biography change the story of Watergate?
By Dan Amira
chuck colson
Apr. 21, 2012
Nixon’s Hatchet Man Dies at 80 Political strategist turned minister Chuck Colson authored both the enemies list and the autobiography Born Again .
By Caroline Bankoff
watergate remembered
Aug. 20, 2011
By Andre Tartar
First Look Into Tarte Tatin, Coming Soon to Beverly Hills Owner Kobi Tobiano comes from Michael Mina’s Charles Nob Hill and San Francisco’s Watergate.
By Hadley Tomicki
america’s sweetheart
Apr. 30, 2010
Palin: College Kid Hacking My E-mail Was Just Like Watergate The hacker has been found guilty on two counts and faces over twenty years in prison.
By Dan Amira
ink-stained wretches
May 27, 2009
Bob Woodward Unimpressed by the Times ’ Watergate Scoop A tip is nothing without a brilliant reporter to follow up on it.
By Dan Amira
early and often
Dec. 19, 2008
‘Deep Throat’ Mark Felt Dead at 95 The infamous Watergate source, who revealed himself in 2005, passed away yesterday.
By Chris Rovzar
quote machine
May 18, 2007
