What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? Photo byGabriel LamzaonUnsplash During the Watergate investigation, Sen. Howard Baker (R- TN) famously asked the question about President Richard Nixon. The resultant scandal caused Nixon to resign the presidency on August 8, 1974. We can ask the ...
My grandparents did not have a car, but they hired one to go in to the hospital, when the end finally came. I went with them in the car, but was not allowed to enter the hospital. Perhaps it was just as well. What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of na...
This of course leads to the downfall of trust in elite institutions. You have things from Watergate to the sexual abuse scandal that start to undermine, start to crack the sort of public trust in those institutions. But honestly, what changes this in a profound way is not this or that sca...
Yeah Watergate and the dirty tricks weren’t really known until after the fact. The book, I read Nixonland I think did a good job showing how Nixon went from looking finished in 1960 to having one of the biggest electoral wins ever just 12 years later. I think my own family, r...
Well, you could drop an f-bomb on live TV, show your bare ass to the audience or leave the production company with a bill for more than $1,000 in damages made to your hotel room. The Replacements did all three in 1986, in what was the Minneapolis band’s first appearance on televis...
“You know, I think you’re right, Jenny,” Ida, one of the cronies, chimed from her wheelchair. “Reagan was president when JR died. And ol’ JR never got over the whole Watergate deal.” The bow tie preacher was turning red. Star and Sissy were giggling. “Out of respect for ...
“It’s almost like a miniature Watergate,” said McInnis. I emailed Peters a detailed list of follow-up questions about these specific allegations in the indictment, but she did not provide a response prior to publication. Peters asked her staff to attend a presentation from Douglas Frank, ...
Lil Bo Weep, real name Winona Brooks, was an Australian artist and social media personality. According to her father, who shared the news of her death on Facebook, she died on March 5. “She fought hard against her demons as we all did side by side next to her and picking up the ...
Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, etc., these are all history to me, and don’t try to tell me they’re not. And, yes, historians sit around and think about these things. So, What Exactly Do I Write? I’ve struggled with cataloguing my writing. My first novel,A War of Dec...
On Aug. 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned over his role in the Watergate scandal. "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing,” Nixon said in his final speech from the Oval Office. This Getty Images photo depicts the 37th president's farewells to Wh...