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4-Track Demos

The picture was taken at the Watergate in Washington, D.C. The black-and-white photo that appears on the back of the album (also by Mochnacz) depicts Harvey naked and wrapped in plastic sheeting.

Barry Serafin

From there he began a decade of service with the CBS Washington D.C. bureau, winning an Emmy award for his contribution to their May 1, 1974 documentary, "Watergate: The White House Transcripts." He joined ABC News in 1979, first as a foreign correspondent sub-anchoring segments from Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis, and becoming a national correspondent for the network in 1981.

Boardmasters Festival

In 2010 acts such as Plan B, Leftfield, Newton Faulkner and Ricta will be performing at Watergate Bay across 3 stages on Friday and Saturday.

Chesterfield Smith

While serving as President of the American Bar Association he became an outspoken critic of the Richard Nixon and advocated for the congressional reappointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate affair, although Smith had earlier supported Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

Clinton Jencks

In Jencks v. United States, a landmark decision that later played a minor role in the Watergate prosecutions, the Court overturned Jencks's conviction and held that defense counsel had the right to see FBI reports.

College Garden

The north side is formed by the great hall of Westminster School (originally the monks' dormitory), and the houses of the Abbey canons; the east and south sides are a mediaeval wall with a watergate which formerly opened into the River Thames, now embanked fifty yards away beyond the House of Lords.

Dardis

Martin Dardis (1922–2006), American soldier, police officer, investigator and reporter who linked the Watergate burglars to President Nixon's reelection committee

Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw

Despite advice from San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Watergate legend G. Gordon Liddy, Rickards loses track of both the money and the video-tape.

Dwight Chapin

Chapin resigned to work as an executive for United Airlines, but was drawn back into the swirl of Watergate legal proceedings.

Fordwich

The 16th-century building next the Town Hall, now known as Watergate House, was the family home of John and Gregory Blaxland, early 19th-century pioneers of Australia.

Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy

Toward that end, the Baker Studies Program is sponsoring academic conferences on topics ranging from Senator Baker’s role in the Senate Watergate Committee’s investigation to the service rendered by Senator Baker as Senate minority and majority leader, President Richard Nixon’s overtures to Senator Baker as a possible successor to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, and Senator Baker’s tenure as White House Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan.

Howard Simons

According to a site on the Howard Simons Fellowship, "Simons received the first phone call in The Post newsroom with word of the Watergate break-in and pressed relentlessly on the paper's coverage of the story. He started at The Post as a science reporter but soon became an editor, nurturing talented young reporters such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein."

John Meier

John H. Meier, former Howard Hughes business associate, involved in the Watergate Scandal

Jonathan Potter

For example, they reanalysed Ulric Neisser's classic work on the Watergate testimony showing the way John Dean's accounts of his excellent memory were used by counsel as parts of building the case against Nixon.

Kenneth Dahlberg

Kenneth H. Dahlberg (1917-2011), American businessman and World War II fighter ace who was involved in the Watergate scandal

Laird-Dunlop House

Benjamin C. Bradlee, the Washington Post editor during the Watergate era, purchased the house in 1983 and lives there with Sally Quinn.

Michael Brunson

In 1973, Brunson became ITN Washington Correspondent, where he remained until 1977, covering Watergate and the 1976 US Presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Paul Contillo

Riding the Watergate Democratic landslide, Contillo and his running mate, incumbent Assemblyman Edward Hynes defeated Republican Assemblyman Charles Reid and attorney Ralph W. Chandless, Jr..

Paul Redmond Michel

From 1974 to 1975 he was the Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and from 1975 to 1976 was assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Pedro J. Ramírez

Upon finishing his degree, he worked as a lecturer in Contemporary Spanish Literature at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania, living in the United States during the decisive year of the Watergate case.

Polo Lounge

The high command of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (Richard Nixon) in 1972 was staying at the hotel during a west coast fund raising trip, and having a breakfast meeting in the Polo Lounge when Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy placed his fateful call to Committee Deputy Director, Jeb Stuart Magruder.

Ralph Perk

When Metzenbaum lost the primary to Glenn (The two were later Senate colleagues for many years.), Perk expressed doubt that he could win the election, particularly in the Democrats year of Watergate.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Richard Ben-Veniste and George Frampton, Stonewall: The Real Story of the Watergate Prosecution Simon & Schuster, 1977, ISBN 0-671-22463-8

Robert R. Merhige, Jr.

Merhige authored the ruling of the three federal judge panel that rejected the appeals of Watergate criminals G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez and upheld their criminal convictions for breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.

Samuel Dash

Dash died in Washington, D.C., of congestive heart failure, aged 79, on the same day as Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal.

Suite Madame Blue

"Suite Madame Blue" is a metaphor for the United States, but many lyrics are actually metaphors for political controversies of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Watergate and the War in Vietnam.

The Missing White House Tapes

The single consisted of a doctored speech, in which Richard Nixon confesses culpability in the Watergate break-in.

Thomas Keyes

in his chamber by the Watergate at Westminster Keyes secretly married the Queen's kinswoman, Lady Mary Grey, the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Frances Brandon.

United States congressional hearing

Its most famous inquiries are benchmarks in American history: Credit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Army-McCarthy, Watergate, and Iran-Contra.

Watergate Bay

The Watergate Bay Hotel and Fifteen Cornwall, a restaurant set up by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, are located just above the beach and there are a number of caravan and camping sites within easy reach.

Watergate salad

Watergate Salad took off in popularity during and after the presidential scandal which shares the same name.

Western Goals Foundation

After the Watergate and COINTELPRO scandals of the early 1970s, several laws were passed to restrict police intelligence gathering within political organizations.

When Nature Calls

The film features cameos from such notable people as baseball legend Willie Mays, professional wrestler Fred Blassie, comedian Morey Amsterdam, and Watergate icon G. Gordon Liddy.

Will: G. Gordon Liddy

The film follows the rise and fall of convicted Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy.


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