How response to Watergate tapes 50 years ago contrasts with today’s political climate | PBS News

Fifty years ago, a White House aide revealed that then-President Nixon’s conversations had been recorded. The tapes included Nixon working to cover up the Watergate break-in connected to his ... Read More

What Watergate can teach us today - The Washington Post

Enough people cared enough 50 years ago to make government work again when it appeared to have broken. ... What Watergate can teach us today. ... the news media reported, the people read, watched, ... Read More

What the Senate Watergate hearings showed about America

This week marks 50 years since the first public hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, also known as the Senate Watergate hearings.. It also marked the start ... Read More

Wallowing in Watergate 50 years later: A political quiz

Until a June night 50 years ago, Watergate meant little more than an apartment complex, an office building and a bandshell at the edge of the Potomac where military bands played the music of John ... Read More

OPINION: Watergate: To the Contrary, the System Didn’t Work - MSN

This week marks 50 years since Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace in response to Watergate, the first and only sitting president to step down. The term Watergate itself, especially its suffix ... Read More

Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The political world changed forever. - USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very ... Read More

Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The political world has never been the same. - USA TODAY

Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very different political ... Read More

Trump's America: What Watergate and Nixon's Downfall Can Teach Us 45 Years Later - Newsweek

That doesn't mean there aren't lessons Trump's America can learn from the Watergate years. We can start with the old adage borne out of Watergate: It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. Read More

Watergate Revisited: How Has America Changed? - Forbes

Americans have long linked politics and corruption, and many did so in the summer of 1974. In June, 49 percent said Watergate was a very serious matter because it revealed corruption in the Nixon ... Read More

Increasing Number of Americans Think Watergate Was 'Just Politics'

On the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, only a narrow majority of Americans still think Watergate was a very serious matter and nearly half think the scandal was "just politics." ... Read More

Watergate: To the Contrary, the System Didn’t Work

In 10 years, we went from evening national news programs of 15 minutes in length in the fall of 1963 to our first experience with politics 24/7 in the fall of 1973 after impeachment proceedings ... Read More