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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Patrick Gray was the acting head of the FBI when he was pressured to resign on April 28, 1973, in the wake of the President Nixon Watergate scandal, the Guardian reports. Gray’s resignation came after news that he had burned incriminating documents tied to convicted Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt. Gray was in…

Column: Woodward and Bernstein, 40 Years Later, Nixon Was Far Worse Than We Thought

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By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Washington Post As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?” Countless answers have been offered in the 40 years since June 17, 1972, when a team of…

Better Late Than Never: Nixon Library to Release Nixon’s Grand Jury Testimony on Watergate

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By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com Better late than never. The Nixon Presidential Library in California on Thursday is making available Nixon’s grand jury testimony about the Watergate scandal, the Associated Press reports. This should be interesting. The public release of the material comes four months after a judge ordered the June 1975 records unsealed. “This is…