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The WaterGate Conspiracy
[1972-74]
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"The slow-rising central horror of 'WaterGate' is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug
of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for,
but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it."
— gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson [1937-2005]
"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."
— Richard M. Nixon [1913-94]
"The fact of the WaterGate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step,
you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal." — Bob Woodward
"The political lesson of WaterGate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass
the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." — Gerald R. Ford [1913-2006]
"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during the WaterGate years it was interpreted
again so as to reaffirm that no one – absolutely no one – is above the law." — Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski [1905-82]
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with WaterGate, we as the public
are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
— novelist John le Carre
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Watergate Scandal entry at Wikipedia
timeline of the Watergate Scandal at Wikipedia
Washington Post's WaterGate Timeline pages
Washington Post's WaterGate Archive
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non-fiction about WaterGate
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 | "The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and The Scandal of Watergate - The Political Outrage of The Century" [1974] by Barry Sussman
Kindle Edition from Catapulter Books [1/2011] for $7.95 Catapulter Books 9x6 pb [12/2010] for $13.13 Signet mass pb [8/74] out of print/used Crowell hardcover [8/74] out of print/used |
 | "The Watergate Quiz Book" [1983] by W.S. Moorhead Kindle Edition from Henry Holt & Co. [8/2017] for $7.99 Holt, Rinehart & Winston 8¼x5½ pb [1983] out of print/used |
 | "The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon" [1990] by Stanley I. Kutler recommended by Watergate figure John W. Dean W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [5/92] for $11.53 Knopf 9¼x6¾ hardcover [5/90] out of print/used |
 | "Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics & The Fall of Richard Nixon" [1994] by Fred Emery
Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [11/2012] for $11.99 Touchstone 9x6¼ pb [9/95] for $34.95 Paw Prints 9x6 library hardcover [6/2008] for $27.00 Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [6/94] out of print/70+ used |
 | "A Cultural History of The United States Through The Decades - The 1970s" [grades 6-10; 1998] by Gail B. Stewart Covers the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's resignation, the Iran hostage crisis, bell-bottoms & punk & disco, the continuing Sexual Revolution, and the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster Lucent Books 9x7 hardcover [9/98] out of print/used |
 | "Lost Illusions: American Cinema In The Age of Watergate & Vietnam, 1970-1979" [1999] by David A. Cook Univ CA Press 9½x7½ pb [3/2002] for $30.88 Scribner's 10¼x7½ hardcover [11/99] for $99.00 |
 | "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" [2004] by John W. Dean Warner Books pb [4/2005] for $10.17 Little, Brown 8&frac134x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $15.61 |
 | "The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat" [2005] by Bob Woodward, with Carl Bernstein Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [2005 edition] for $11.02 S&S 8¼x6 pb [5/2006] for $13.88 S&S 9x5¾ hardcover [7/2005] out of print/hundreds used |
 | "Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat" [2012] by Max Holland Univ Press of Kansas 9x6 hardcover [3/2012] for $24.35 |
 | "Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The C.I.A. - A Ground-breaking Investigation Into What Nixon Was Really After and Why He Risked The Presidency To Get it" [2012] by Lamar Waldron
Kindle Edition from Counterpoint [6/2012] for $14.49 Counterpoint pb [6/2013] for $19.77 Counterpoint 9x6½ hardcover [6/2012] for $30.49 |
 | "The Original Watergate Stories" in Kindle format from The Washington Post [2013] Foreword by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein 133-page Kindle Edition from Diversion Books [12/2013] for $2.99 {sic} |
 | "Smoking Gun: The Nation On Watergate, 1952-2010" for Kindle [2014]
Kindle Edition from The Nation Co. LP [7/2014] for $7.99 is also available as an e-book or as a paperback through eBookNation Edited by Richard Kreitner, Foreword by Elizabeth Holtzman; articles by Carey McWilliams (7), Robbins Burling, James MacGregor Burns, Ramsey Clark, David Corn & Jeff Goldberg, Ron Dorfman, Frederick Gutheim, Mark Harris, Robert Hatch, Irving Louis Horowitz, Herbert S. Levine, Gene Marine, Wayne Morse, Katha Pollitt, Norman Redlich, Michael Reisman, Arlie Schardt, Robert Sherrill (2), Jerome R. Waldie, and Jon Wiener (2) |
"Shadow: Five Presidents and The Legacy of Watergate" [6/1999] by Bob Woodward
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Five-Presidents-Legacy-Watergate/dp/0684852624/
"In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time" [Apr 2001] by Leonard Garment
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Deep-Throat-Greatest-Political/dp/0465026141/
fiction about WaterGate
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 | "Jailbird: A Novel" [1979] by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007] The main plot (with Vonnegut's usual asides) is about Walter F. Starbuck, the least-important member of the WaterGate Conspiracy, who goes to prison and is released and then is sent to prison a second time; Vonnegut opines on labor movements and on the Sacco & Vanzetti case in chapters 18 & 19. Kindle Edition from Rosetta Books [8/2011] for $7.99 Kindle Edition from Dial Press [7/2010] for $11.99 Dell mass pb [1/99] out of print/many used Dial Press 8x5¼ pb [1/99] for $12.99 Doubleday 8¼x5½ hardcover [8/79] out of print/100+ used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Watergate Exposed: How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up" [2010] by 'confidential informant' Robert Merritt, As Told To defense attorney Doug Caddy This book is fiction! The bogus premise is that the homosexual author heard about the Watergate break-in before it happened, therefore ... set-up! What's true is that the 'plumbers' made several failed attempts and then when they did get into D.N.C.'s offices, they were caught red-handed. Kindle Edition from Trine Day [10/2010] for $9.99 Trine Day 9x6 pb [4/2011] for $16.85 |
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"Watergate: A Novel" [2012] by Thomas Mallon "[This book] is certainly a masterpiece." — mystery author James Ellroy Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [2/2012] for $11.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/2013] for $10.85 Knopf/Pantheon 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2012] for $16.94 |
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Movies, Stageplays, Other Media
search for DVDs on keyword 'watergate' {returns 35 titles} at Amazon
search on keyword 'watergate' at Internet Movie Database
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 | "The Watergate Scandal: A Game of Cover-up and Deception For The Whole Family" [1973] details not found American Symbolic Corp. card game [1973] out of prodn/used |
 | "Watergate" game by Matthias Cramer [2019]
card-driven game for two players, age 12 & older; one player is a Journalist/Editor attempting to bring Nixon down, the other player is Nixon/WhiteHouse trying to stay in office; game is comprised of two oversized card decks, draw-string bag of tokens, 16x16" gameboard, rules booklet, 'History of Watergate' booklet; game won several awards, including 2-Player Game of the Year Capstone Games card & board game in 8x8x2" box [8/2019] for $30.49 |
"White House Madness" [1975]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073895/ • first-ever comedy movie about Watergate
"All The President's Men"
[Warner/Wildwood April 1976]
  | Two intrepid reporters and their editor at the Washington Post track a seemingly simple burglary at the WaterGate office building to the highest members of the Republican Party and to the Nixon White House. • Directed by Alan J. Pakula; screenplay by William Goldman from the bestselling book [below]; starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards & Jane Alexander; won Oscars for Best Script, Best Supporting Actor [JR], Best Sound, Best Art Direction, Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress [JA], Best Editing; WGA Award for Best Script; added to National Film Registry (2010)
Warner special edition DVD [2/2006] 2 disks for $17.49 Warner widescreen DVD [10/97] for $14.99 Warner color VHS [3/2003] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb • watch official trailer [1:50] at YouTube |
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1974 bestseller by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
Pocket mass pb [6/2005] for $7.99 S&S 8½x5½ pb [6/94] for $11.20 Warner pb [1/75] out of print/used S&S hardcover [6/74] out of print/many used Recorded Books audio CD [3/2004] for $23.09 Woodward-Bernstein Watergate papers at UTexas/Austin |
Magic Lantern's "All The President's Men" 1976 Movie Page
"Washington: Behind Closed Doors" [1977]
The story of a power-hungry U.S. President and the men with whom he surrounds himself, in order to keep his hold on power. Based on John Ehrlichman's book about the Nixon administration. Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards, Stefanie Powers, Robert Vaughn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075597/
 | "Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews" [May 1977] 88-minute TV special culled from 28 hours of in-person interviews. • Co-produced & hosted by Sir David Frost; directed by Jørn Winther; starring interviewee Richard Nixon Liberation Ent. color DVD [12/2008] for $13.49 Universal Home Video VHS [1/96] 6 hours on 5 tapes - out of prodn/rare full credits from IMDb |
 | "Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews" [1996] 12 half-hour episodes directed by Jørn Winther, featuring David Frost & Richard Nixon FilmRise digitally-remastered color DVD-R [8/2014] 2 disks for $24.99 Universal Studios Home Ent. color VHS [1/96] 5 tapes for $7.77 |
"Born Again" [1978] about Charles Colson
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077261/
"Blind Ambition" TV mini-series [1979]
docu-drama traces the career of John Dean, special counsel of President Nixon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078575/
"Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy" TV movie [1982]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084908/
"784 Days That Changed America: From Watergate to Resignation" TV documentary [1982]
90 min | Documentary Stars: Nancy Dickerson, Richard Nixon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6540304/
"Dark Days at the White House: The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of President Richard M. Nixon" TV documentary [1989]
60 min | the main events about the Watergate scandal and the circumstances that led to President Nixon's resignation in 1974
Stars: Robert Bork, Alexander Butterfield, Archibald Cox, John Dean http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254248/
"The Final Days (1989 TV Movie) /tt0097354/
Based on the acclaimed book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, chronicles president Richard Nixon's administration during the critical period after the Watergate
"Nixon" [Hollywood Pictures Dec 1995]
  | The discovery of the Watergate burglary and the subsequent cover-up attempt by the White House leads to the resignation of President Nixon • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Oliver Stone; starring Anthony Hopkins {as Nixon}, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, E.G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J.T. Walsh & James Woods; Oscar noms for Best Original Script, Best Actor [AH], Best Supporting Actress [JA], Best Music Score
Disney Video widescreen color Blu-ray [8/2008] for $24.49 Disney Video Collector's Edition widescreen color DVD [3/2002] out of prodn/used Disney Video color VHS [3/97] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used Hollywood Rcds soundtrack CD by John Williams [12/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb "Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film" annotated screenplay & essays [1995] |
"Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History" TV movie [2003]
117 min | Documentary Director: Foster Wiley | Stars: Will Lyman, Howard Baker, Carl Bernstein, Benjamin C. Bradlee
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379002/
"Secret Honor: President Richard M. Nixon" [2004]
81 min | documentary video http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6608150/
"NBC News Presents: Deep Throat - The Full Story of Watergate" [6/2006]
https://www.amazon.com/NBC-News-Presents-Throat-Watergate/dp/B000FAOCBI/
"Frost / Nixon" [Universal/Imagine Dec 2008]
 | After U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's near-impeachment then resignation over WaterGate in 1974, Australian talk show host David Frost outbid C.B.S. for an exclusive interview with the ailing Nixon. For 12 interview sessions, Nixon managed to overrun Frost with lengthy self-justifying lectures. But then a drunken phone call by Nixon to Frost ramped up the pressure: either Nixon would succeed in restoring his political luster (and Frost go bankrupt), or Frost must implicate Nixon definitively in the Watergate scandal. • Co-produced & directed by Ron Howard; script by Peter Morgan, based on his play; starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Toby Jones, Andy Milder & Rebecca Hall
Universal Home Video widescreen color on Blu-ray [4/2009] for $20.99 Universal Home Video widescreen color DVD [4/2009] for $19.98 Varese Sarabande soundtrack CD [12/2008] 14 tracks for $14.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Frost/Nixon: A Play" [London 2006, Broadway 2007] by Peter Morgan London & New York performances directed by Michael Grandage and starring Michael Sheen & Frank Langella; Langella won Best Actor Tony Award, Drama Desk Award & Outer Critics Circle Award Faber & Faber 7½x5 playscript pb [4/2007] for $11.20 Broadway play credits at IBDb • play entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Frost/Nixon: Behind The Scenes of The Nixon Interviews" [2007] by Sir David Frost, with Bob Zelnick "the authoritative account of the only public trial that Nixon would ever have" Harper Perennial 7¾x5¾ pb [10/2007] for $10.97 Macmillan 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2007] out of print/used |
 | "The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of The Frost/Nixon Interviews" [2007] by James Reston, Jr. Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [5/2008] for $11.16 Harmony 8¼x5½ hardcover [6/2007] out of print/used |
"All The President's Men Revisited" TV documentary [2013]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2189106/
"Nixon's Address on Watergate, 1973" (2013 Video)
29 min | Documentary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6634302/
"Dick Cavett's Watergate" TV documentary [2014]
55-minute documentary with numerous clips from The Dick Cavett Show from 1972 to 1974, popular talk show host Dick Cavett covered the Watergate scandal
in great detail on his show. Director: John Scheinfeld | Stars: Dick Cavett, Tim Naftali, Carl Bernstein, John Dean
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4406434/
https://www.amazon.com/Dick-Cavetts-Watergate/dp/B00ME8ENL8/
"Sammy-Gate" (2016) /tt3574800/
A dark political satire about how Sammy Davis, Jr. caused Watergate.
Director: Noel Lawrence | Stars: Richard Beatty, Phil Proctor, Peter Henry Schroeder, Durga McBroom
"Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House"
[Scott Free Prodns/Sony Pictures Classics Sept 2017]
 | Passed over for promotion and isolated by the Nixon White House, the #2 man at the F.B.I. is forced to risk his career and even his life to uphold the U.S. Constitution • Co-produced by Peter Guber, Tom Hanks, Ridley Scott, and others; co-produced, adapted & directed by Peter Landesman, based on books by Mark Felt & John D. O'Connor; starring Liam Neeson {as Mark Felt}, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas, Tony Goldwyn, Ike Barin-holtz, Josh Lucas, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Kate Walsh, Brian d'Arcy James, Maika Monroe, Michael C. Hall {as John Dean}, Tom Sizemore, Julian Morris {as Bob Woodward}, Bruce Greenwood, Noah Wyle, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Michael Ayers, Wayne Pére, Jeff Sprauve, Darryl Cox, Scott Poythress, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Jessica Young, Ricky Wayne, L. Warren Young, Charles Green, Michael Crider, Jeffrey Dezenski, Kandace Howard, Patti Schellhaas; with archive footage of Dick Cavett, Walter Cronkite, and Richard Nixon
Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2018] for $22.99 Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [1/2018] for $14.96 full credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2017 official trailer [2:17] online at YouTube |
 | "A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being Deep Throat, and The Struggle For Honor In Washington" [2006] by Mark Felt & John O'Connor Felt joined the F.B.I. in 1942 and worked his way up to the #2 position at the time of Hoover's death in 1972. PublicAffairs 8¾x5½ pb [6/2007] out of print/70+ used PublicAffairs 9¾x6¾ hardcover [4/2006] out of print/70+ used |
 | "Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House" [2017] by Mark Felt & John O'Connor same book as 2006, retitled for movie tie-in? - new Preface and Afterword by John O'Connor movie tie-in Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs/Hachette [9/2017] for $11.99 PublicAffairs 8½x5¾ movie tie-in pb [9/2017] for $12.18 |
Image Gallery
Principal Participants
C.I.A. plumber & WaterGate burglar Bernard Barker [1917-2009]
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein [b. 1944]
Solicitor General Robert H. Bork [1927-2012]
Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee [1921-2014]
White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield [b. 1926]
President Nixon's attorney J. Fred Buzhardt [1924-78]
W.H. staff Charles 'Chuck' Colson [1931-2012]
Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox [1912-2004]
businessman Kenneth H. Dahlberg [1917-2011] - innocent bystander in payments to the 'plumbers'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_H._Dahlberg
C.I.A. plumber Felipe de Diego [?]
White House Counsel John W. Dean [b. 1938]
W.H. staff John Ehrlichman [1925-99]
F.B.I. #2 officer W. Mark Felt [1913-2008]
revealed in 2005 to be WaterGate whistleblower 'Deep Throat'
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WaterGate burglar Virgilio González [b. 1926]
Washington Post publisher Katharine 'Kay' Graham [1917-2001]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Graham
W.H. Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman [1926-93]
W.H. staff E. Howard Hunt [1918-2007]
second Special Prosecutor Leonidas 'Leon' Jaworski [1905-82]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jaworski
Fred Larue [1928-2004], mysterious bagman during WaterGate
W.H. staff G. Gordon Liddy [b. 1930]
C.R.P. chairman Clark MacGregor [1922-2003]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_MacGregor
C.R.P. deputy director Jeb Stuart Magruder [1934-2014]
WaterGate burglar Eugenio Martínez [b. 1922]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Mart%C3%ADnez
C.R.P. lawyer Robert Mardian [1923-2006]
C.I.A. plumber & WaterGate burglar Eugenio Martínez [b. 1922]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Mart%C3%ADnez
WaterGate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. [b. 1924]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._McCord_Jr.
Hughes executive John H. Meier [b. 1933], pal of Donald Nixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Meier
former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell [1913-88]
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C.R.P. lawyer Kenneth Parkinson [1927-2016]
Washington Post managing editor Howard Simons [1929-89]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Simons
C.R.P. treasurer Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. [b. 1940]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_W._Sloan_Jr.
C.R.P. finance director Maurice Stans [1908-98]
W.H. staff Gordon C. Strachan [b. 1943] - indicted in March 1974, all charges dropped in June 1975
WaterGate burglar Frank Sturgis [1924-93]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sturgis
WaterGate security guard Frank Wills [1948-2000]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wills_(security_guard)
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward [b. 1943]
L i n k s
Watergate Scandal entry at Wikipedia
timeline of the Watergate Scandal at Wikipedia
Washington Post's WaterGate Timeline pages
Washington Post's WaterGate Archive
search for books on keyword 'watergate' {returns 1,600+ titles} at Amazon
search for DVDs on keyword 'watergate' {returns 35 titles} at Amazon
search on keyword 'watergate' at Internet Movie Database
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