Charles Ruff, Watergate Prosecutor, Dies, 61
Charles Ruff, former Watergate Prosecutor, has died, aged 61. Ruff is best known for the leading role he played in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999. During Watergate, Ruff...
View ArticleJason Robards, Star Of ‘All The President’s Men’, Dies, 78
Jason Robards, the actor who played Washington Post editor, Ben Bradlee, in the 1976 film about the Watergate scandal, All The President’s Men, has died, aged 78. Robards won an Oscar for his...
View ArticleRichard Bergholz, Journalist Who Provoked Nixon, Dies
The journalist believed to be the subject of Richard Nixon’s famous 1962 comment “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore”, Richard Bergholz, has died. Bergholz was a political reporter for the Los...
View ArticleClinton Awards Presidential Medal To Archibald Cox
Archibald Cox, the Watergate Special Prosecutor sacked by President Richard Nixon in the famous “Saturday Night Massacre” of 1973, has been awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Bill...
View ArticleStephen Ambrose, Nixon Biographer, Dies, 66
Stephen Ambrose, the man who authored a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon, has died, aged 66. Ambrose once said that he was a historian who was “fascinated by leadership”. A report in the New...
View ArticleRose Mary Woods, Nixon Secretary, Dies, 87
Rose Mary Woods, Nixon’s personal secretary during Watergate, has died, aged 87. Woods was supposedly responsible for the famous missing 18 and a half minutes from a White House tape recording. In...
View ArticleNewspapers Report Death Of Gerald Ford
Former President Gerald Ford died on December 26, 2006. Thirty-two years after he succeeded and then pardoned Richard Nixon, Ford was accorded considerable media coverage for his role in bringing the...
View ArticleHoward Hunt, Watergate Conspirator, Dies, 88
E. Howard Hunt, the man who recruited the burglars and organised the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex, has died, aged 88. Reports quoting Hunt’s sun,...
View ArticleDrinan, First To File Impeachment Resolution Against Nixon, Dies, 86
The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, the man who first filed an impeachment resolution against President Richard Nixon, has died in Washington. Drinan served as a member of the House Judiciary Committee that...
View ArticleBernard Barker, Watergate Burglar, Dies, 92
Associated Press reports that Bernard Leon Barker has died in Florida, aged 92. Barker was a Cuban-born CIA operative who became of the burglars arrested at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. AP...
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