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Scott Nelson , a Public Citizen lawyer who led the challenge to Bush's order, said researchers should find it easier to gain access to records under the new order. "It's a great signal to send on the president's first day in office," Nelson said. The...
Tags: watergate, Barack Obama
F ollow the money.' Thus runs the classic line from the Oscar-winning film All the President's Men , based on the account of how two reporters brought down President Richard Nixon. In the film the line is attributed to a man known only as 'Deep Throat',...
Tags: deep throat, watergate, washington, bernstein, woodward, throat, water, nixon, gate, deep
Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who helped unlock the secrets of Watergate as the shadowy Deep Throat, was remembered by family and friends as a man who stood out for truth in deceptive times...They included journalists Bob Woodward and...
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But the interview, orchestrated by British TV presenter David Frost, almost didn't happen. Frost wanted a Watergate confession, Nixon wanted good PR and a good pay-cheque. The American networks, to start with, did not want to know at all. Now Frost/Nixon,...
Tags: oscar, interview, film, sir david frost, oscars, watergate, actor, Richard Nixon, Frost/Nixon, David Frost
There are two best bets opening today, with Ron Howard directing "Frost/Nixon," the screen version of the successful Broadway play with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen reprising their roles as former president Richard Nixon and British talk show host...
Mark Felt has died in California, at the age of 95 years. He was, in the early seventies of last century, one of the main directors of the FBI, the man whose testimony contributed to the resignation of Richard Nixon from office of President of the United...
Tags: All the Presidents Men, Bob Woodward, Deep Throat, Mark Felt, Richard Nixon, Watergate
In this corner, the president who resigned in disgrace, the man they call "Tricky Dick" for good reason, Richard M. Nixon. And in this corner, the ultimate lightweight, blow-dried disco-era "TV presenter," Mr. "Hello, good evening and welcome," David...
Tags: interview, watergate, David Frost, oscar, Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon, Frank Langella
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. “Tailgunner Joe” had bedeviled the secretary of state for his lassitude toward communist penetration of State in President Truman’s...
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As I watched Langella’s Nixon being interrogated about the conspiracy and cover-up by Michael Sheen’s David Frost in “Frost/Nixon,” I relived strong memories. And Felt’s death raised the inevitable question: Could the kind of reporting that Woodward and...
Tags: watergate
He'd been identified three years before, anyway, ending this town's best parlor game...Mark Felt Sr. was the secret source who played an important and clandestine role in The Washington Post 's investigation into the Watergate break-in and ensuing, primordial...
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