Washington Post wins Pulitzer for Watergate revelations
Examination of how the Washington Post uncovered Watergate content shows a large staff and a network of over 50 helpers. The sources ranged from government and White House officials to FBI and Justice Department figures, with many labeled as reliable or close to investigations, others unnamed or unidentified. The piece notes “double hearsay” and a leak of secret testimony, urging court action for solid evidence.
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Washington Post
White House
Administration
Executive
Dean
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
FBI
Republican Party
Committee For
Executive Branch
Executive Department
Justice Department
Justice
Jack Anderson
Spiro Agnew
Acine
Robert E. Cushman
Central Intelligence Agency
CEA
Cushman
Nixon
Vietnam
Pentagon
National Security
Murray Chotiner
Washington
James Hoffa
Martha Mitchell Seeks Privacy After Public Life
Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the former Attorney General, seeks a private life away from media glare amid reports of her alleged nervous breakdown and hospitalization. She vows to stop talking to reporters, saying she has a right to privacy and must maintain silence to avoid further intrusion.
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Martha Mitchell
Nixon
Mitchell
Time Magazine
New York Times
Repeal of Prohibition and the Twenty first Amendment
An essay-like note discusses the Twenty first Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and preserving state liquor laws. It notes the 3:2 beer standard and its impact on moral and social life across Kansas, Oklahoma, and neighboring areas, reflecting on constitutional interpretation.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Republic
California
New York
Georgia
Arkansas
Alabama
Florida
Iowa
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Mexico
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Virginia
Congress
Supreme Court
Brandeis
Yazoo
Utah
Watergate hysteria and federalism on wine laws
Column decries Watergate coverage as reckless rumor and politics. It discusses press sensationalism, Nixon administration ties, and figures like Proxmire and Chotiner, then shifts to wine law and federalism, noting state protections for local producers, Brandeis rulings, and calls to preserve state sovereignty.
Parting Shots Cancels Isle of Man Liberation Festival
A lighthearted note mocks a proposed world festival of Women's Liberation on the Isle of Man, joking about renaming it the Isle of Person and the need for high officials to verify flooding before calling it a flood.
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Isle of Man
Isle of Person
Watergate critics and foreign views on the affair
Russell Kirk argues Watergate provoked outsized fuss, noting that burglaries are common. He cites British and Swiss observers who highlight journalistic hypocrisy and political motives, comparing past administrations and media zeal. Senator Proxmire calls the press persecution McCarthyism at its worst.
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Washington
Jack Anderson
Eagleton
William Proxmure
Dem
Madison
Wis
Capital Times
Proxmire
Nixon
Senate
Sam Ervin
Select Committee
United States
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Agnew
William Proxmire
Excess virtue and executive privilege in Hughes critique
A Washington column critiques Harold Hughes as a war critic and anti secrecy advocate amid Nixon era politics. It argues excess virtue can turn priggish and warns against Democratic overreach in condemning executive privilege while noting Hughes’s antiwar stance and skeptical views on wartime secrecy. The piece questions whether Hughes could lead a nation during wartime.
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Berner Tagblatt
Bern
Nixon
Washington
D.C
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Percy
R-Ill
Jackson
Wash
Hughes
White House
Richard Nixon
Senate
Edmund Muskie
Cambodia
Hanoi
Pentagon
Armed Services
Muskie
Ian
Department of Air Force
Ernest Fitzgerald
John
Lavelle
U.S
Tater
Executive
Congress
Pennsylvania
Sam O
Lyndor Johnson
William Bundy
Kennedy
Johnson
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