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Fast Forward Ethics Guru Says Trump Would Be ‘Worse Than Watergate’ To Kill Russia Probe
Norm Eisen, former ethics czar for the Obama administration, has a stern warning for President Trump: Don’t even think of firing Robert Mueller or preemptively pardoning those involved in Russian election interference. Eisen, who is currently with the Brookings Institution, warned against taking steps that would put the president and the White House in a…
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Opinion All The President’s Men: The Sequel
What’s a poor television network to do on a Saturday night when much of the nation will be tuned to NBC to watch “Saturday Night Live” recap the most bizarre week in America’s most bizarre presidency? What could possibly compete? How can you match SNL’s merciless send-up of the Trump-Russia scandal, with its lies, firings…
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Fast Forward Watergate Lawyer: FBI Firing ‘Darkly Reminiscent’ Of ‘Saturday Night Massacre’
Former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste called President Trump’s firing of James Comey “darkly reminiscent” of the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre,” the evening in October 1973 when President Nixon fired the man investigating him. Ben-Veniste, who drew the comparison in an interview with the Forward, is far from the first to connect President Trump’s firing of…
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News Carl Bernstein Says Trump Is Corrupt And Lazy — Like Nixon Of Watergate
Carl Bernstein knows a corrupt president when he sees one – after all, this is the man who helped bring down President Richard Nixon in 1974. “Donald Trump suffers from ethical blindness regarding conflicts of interests of a kind we have never seen in a presidency in the United States in the current era,” the…
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News Glitzing Up the Watergate Hotel Without Losing Hint of Infamous Scandal
“No need to break in”, joke the room keys. Staff uniforms come from Mad Men’s costume designer. A sleek whiskey bar looks like the VIP room of the Starship Enterprise. The Watergate Hotel, which reopened last month after a $125 million overhaul, takes on its history with a wink – this is, after all, part…
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Culture Memoirs of Harry Rosenfeld, Newspaperman Who Survived Kristallnacht and Covered Watergate
If you’re lucky and smart, life as a newshound means that your day job consists of being a semi-ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. You invariably sidle up to history — and its makers — just by showing up for work. As a boy growing up in Hitler’s Berlin, Harry Rosenfeld, author of the new…
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Opinion What Have I Done? Lot of Watergate Under a Bridge
Scene from Gov. Christie’s morning staff meeting? The pivotal moment from the classic 1957 film “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” in which British prisoner-of-war officer Alec Guinness comes face to face with his obsessive and misguided attempt to build his legacy on a bridge. The parallel to the current moment isn’t entirely perfect, other…
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