NIxon Just Wanted to Be Loved

Richard Nixon really understood the concept of branding a presidency, but he was never quite able to bring that idea into practice. Instead, he'd just grumble into his dictabelt whilst wondering why the nation...

The Texacutioner Finds Mercy: Bush Goes Weak in the Knees for Libby

As governor, George W. Bush presided over more than 150 executions. This statistic is a record in modern history and in civilized society and it should be remembered when we talk about him as a man who forgives too...

The Texacutioner Finds Mercy: Bush Goes Weak in the Knees for Libby

As governor, George W. Bush presided over more than 150 executions. This statistic is a record in modern history and in civilized society and it should be remembered when we talk about him as a man who forgives too...

The French Watergate

"On June 16, the former President of France will no longer have his Presidential immunity. He is subject to a number of corruption investigations dating back through 12 years of his Presidency, all the way back to...

Hookergate II: Madame Julia's Big Black Book of Cheesy Republican Sex Acts by...

"Wake up and smell the sex! It's late Spring on the Potomac, and once again that unmistakable odeur erotique is in the air. So let's dance around the Maypole, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners: It's time for Hookergate: Part II! Those of us who enjoy the incriminating...

Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt dies at 88

"MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- E. Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in, leading to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, died Tuesday. He was 88. Hunt died after a lengthy bout with pneumonia, according...

Watergate Figure E. Howard Hunt Is Dead

E. Howard Hunt, one of the key figures who organized the Watergate break-in, has died at the age of 88. A longtime CIA operative, Hunt helped plan both a coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Hunt served 33 months in prison...

Gerald Ford Unpublished Interview

Jan. 8, 2007 issue - He was a larger figure than you might have thought. Many familiar personalities—politicians, movie stars, newscasters—are smaller in fact than they are on television or in photographs. In his 1970s-modern desert house in Rancho Mirage, Calif., or his...

US former president Gerald Ford dead at 93

"LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Former president Gerald Ford, who sought to heal the United States after the trauma of the Watergate scandal that forced Richard Nixon from office in 1974, has died at the age of 93. Flags flew...

UT archives add Woodward and Bernstein collection for 5 mil

University of Texas Harry Ransom Center - known for famous collections including a photocopy of the Gutenberg bible, cataloged papers of screenwriter Tennessee Williams and "Ulysses" - has negotiated for the Woodward...

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No Child's Behind Left Untouched

Is Denny Hastert a closeted gay?

Dirty Tricks In Stockholm

How will the computer hacking scandal — described as the Swedish Watergate — affect the upcoming general election?

Tricky Dick Day

"It was on this day in 1974 that Richard Milhous Nixon went on national television to announce that he was resigning the office of the president. He was the first American president in history forced to resign....

Made In The USA: Reporters Sans Frontiers

"Although Reporters without Borders' attacks on Castro, Chavez and Aristide are perfectly alligned with the State Department's policies, and though she admitted RSF was receiving money from Reich, Morillon denied that the governmant funding the group receives in any way...

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