watergate
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The Fed raised rates sharply and a punishing recession followed, punctuated by Nixon’s resignation over Watergate.
This week Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post — the publication that broke the Watergate scandal — decided to kill the newspaper.
From Salon
Narrator Jodie Foster widens the film’s aperture a bit early on, referring to the period “between Watergate and the Bicentennial” as the documentary’s focus.
"My immediate thought is I've spent more interesting afternoons watching paint dry. I mean, this is a low-level committee. The Watergate hearings, it was not," he told BBC News.
From BBC
On June 18 Mr. McCartney celebrated his 30th birthday; the day before, five men had been arrested for breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate.
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