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A history of skyrocketing gas prices

A look back at American gas price increases, the global factors that contributed and the presidents who got blamed

Salon

Abortion and the Supreme Court: A short legal history of Roe

WASHINGTON — The early American laws prohibiting abortion were adopted in the 19th century in an era when women could not vote or hold elective office.

Los Angeles Times

Biden’s hunger summit echoes Nixon’s, but faces new challenges

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to hold a hunger summit, more than 50 years after President Richard Nixon convened a similar one, will put a spotlight not only on shortcomings in the current programs but also on issues that emerged over the decades since.

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Republicans who aided coup attempt sought blanket presidential pardons

Matt Gaetz and Mo Brooks sought pardons for lawmakers involved in Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat by Biden

The Guardian - US

Biden’s hunger summit echoes Nixon’s, but faces new challenges

The administration's hunger summit faces challenges that have emerged since 1969, when the Nixon administration held a similar event.

Roll Call

Tea with benefits: Lessons from the Royal Family

Our politicians can learn from the British Royal Family how to gather public goodwill by giving themselves a cuddly makeover

The Hindu

Watergate trial records and evidence digitized for 50th anniversary of break-in

Material from the United States v. G. Gordon Liddy Watergate case is now available to view in the National Archives Catalog.

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The First Lady review: Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis can’t save this confused period drama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama get the crusty, historical treatment in this plodding 10-part show

The Independent UK

Leadership by Henry Kissinger review – lessons in diplomacy from a master of the dark arts

In this analysis of six national leaders, the grand old man of US politics offers a broad-brush history of international statecraft but ignores the death and destruction that sometimes resulted

The Guardian - UK

This nuke-crazy general changed history

Think Michael Flynn is weird? Consider Curtis LeMay, the Air Force general famously parodied in "Dr. Strangelove"

Salon

Elvis director Baz Luhrmann reveals original cut of the film was ‘four hours long’

Filmmaker decided the biopic needed a little less conversation...

The Independent UK

Martin Schram: How a Watergate punishment might have averted our Jan. 6 hell

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy.

Tribune News Service

Watergate Inspires Scandal Terms around the World

Around 50 years ago, a failed robbery took place at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. Since then, the building has been linked to many scandals, including one that was revealed by the Washington Post and led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon…

Asharq Al-Awsat

50 years ago, Watergate changed the American political thriller forever

When Richard Nixon’s administration covered up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s offices, a new cinematic catnip was born.

Inverse

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Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: A break-in at the Watergate Hotel

On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The Independent UK

Wallowing in Watergate 50 years later: A political quiz

Fifty years later, the Watergate scandal is remembered in broad strokes

The Independent UK

Watergate timeline: From the crime to the consequences

It took close to two years for Richard Nixon to be driven from the presidency in disgrace after the Watergate break-in 50 years ago

Daily Mirror

Watergate scandal: How a single piece of tape brought down the US President

One botched break-in 50 years ago today would end up changing US history and American politics forever as it set of a series of events that brought down then president Richard Nixon

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The Independent UK

Watergate 50th meets Jan. 6. Common thread: Thirst for power

Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart, in vastly different eras, and they were about different things

Chicago Sun-Times

It’s not what Trump knew, but what he had a responsibility to know

Trump is responsible for his lies, however fervently he may tell himself and others that he believes in them. What is sincerity in the mind of a man who lies with every exhale?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A half a century after Nixon's Watergate shook democracy, Trump has trumped him

Fifty years ago Friday, burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington, the first chapter of a story that would transform American politics. The anniversary comes as Congress investigates the greatest constitutional crisis since then. Just as Watergate-era leaders instituted important reforms to address the weaknesses of the system that…

The Conversation

Watergate at 50: the burglary that launched a thousand scandals

One of the more curious legacies of the Watergate scandal is so obvious that we barely notice it.

ABC News

Why Trump was more dangerous than Nixon

Fifty years on from the Watergate scandal, the threat of impeachment that made Nixon resign has not fazed twice-impeached Trump — who could run for president again.

Axios

Watergate's Cuban American history

Three Cuban exiles on an anti-communist crusade helped Nixon's team carry out the infamous break-in

Roll Call

‘The Martha Mitchell Effect’ gives voice to one of Watergate’s great characters - Roll Call

"The Martha Mitchell Effect" gives voice to one of the key figures of the Watergate scandal: Martha Mitchell.

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