Watergate

During the Watergate scandal, the prosecutor subpoenaed Oval Office conversations audio tapes. President Nixon refused to turn over the tapes, asserting executive privilege.

Question: Is the President's right to safeguard certain information, using his "executive privilege…

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">… is today’s newspaper. Here the executive editor of the Washington ‘Post’ takes us on a spirited dash through the minefields that await reporters and editors who gather and disseminate a most valuable commodity.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A sometime “Nixon-hater” looks back on Watergate and discovers that his glee of a decade ago has given way to larger, sadder, and more generous emotions</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In which a President fails to fulfill his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” And a reluctant Congress acts.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An old, familiar show is back in Washington. There’s a new cast, of course, but the script is pretty much the same as ever. Here’s the program.</span> </p>

<p>Corruption must be fought in ways that preserve fairness and freedom. Otherwise, the reformers can be as bad as the rascals.</p>

<p><span class="deck">On the 20th anniversary of Watergate, a recently discovered diary reveals a similar conspiracy four decades earlier.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> A VETERAN JOURNALIST</lead_in> reflects on how public discourse has been tarnished by the press’s relentless war against presidents, including his own biggest offense.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">AN ANNIVERSARY LOOK BACK AT THE BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL EVER, THROUGH THE CHANGES IT WROUGHT IN THE LANGUAGE</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Americans have been invading one another’s privacy for political gain since before the Revolution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Dick’s Last Trick</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">OUR AUTHOR FEARED THE WORST AND FOUND HE WAS NOT ALONE.</span></p>

<p>Nixon’s abuse of presidential power constitutes his most important influence on later constitutional law and U.S. politics.</p>

<p>Recently declassified documents reveal that Alexander Haig and other White House staff actively worked to remove Richard Nixon — the president they worked for — from office.</p>

<p>In his latest memoir, Carl Bernstein retraces the path of his early journalism career before he went on to make history at the <em>Washington Post.</em></p>

<p>Though it was one of his most controversial actions as president, Richard Nixon's covert bombing of Cambodia was excluded from his impeachment articles, helping to shape how the Vietnam War has been remembered ever since.</p>