Four decades ago, Richard Nixon resigned, making him the first U.S. president in history to quit the office, the result of two years of a spreading scandal known as Watergate. But many Watergate reforms aimed at limiting the power of money…
Tag: Watergate
A Blind Eye to LBJ’s ‘X-File’
Firewall: Inside the Iran-Contra Cover-up
Robert Strauss’s Watergate Secret
Does Nixon’s ‘Treason’ Boost LBJ’s Legacy?
If Gov. Christie Had NSA’s Metadata
Fixing US Democracy with Facts
From Editor Robert Parry: In our 18 years, Consortiumnews.com has had one priority: to chart a truthful history of the United States and its role in the world. In doing so, we have examined key chapters of that history so…
Does Woodward Know Watergate?
The Great Benghazi Distraction
The Benghazi “scandal” has enabled congressional Republicans to keep their “base” worked up to a fever pitch, but the hyping of the controversy beyond all reason is doing real harm to U.S. national security by distracting officials from actual foreign policy problems, according…