The U.S. Department of Justice has urged a Florida federal court not to toss antitrust charges against a man accused of rigging bids for customized promotional products sold to the U.S. Army, saying his dismissal bid misconstrues the law.
The two-year drama that unfolded after the burglary, with its plot twists and cast of colorful, often unsavory characters, ultimately led to the impeachment and resignation of Nixon, who was pardoned a month later by his successor, Gerald R. Ford.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Watergate break-in that toppled Richard Nixon and transformed American politics for the worse ever after. The Watergate saga, and especially the media’s role in it, remains large a heroic tale for liberalism, though second thoughts about the whole matter are starting to emerge. To this day no one can say for sure what the Watergate burglars were after when they were discovered