Watergate

• WASHINGTON (AP) – He was described as the evil genius of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction.
(USA Today)
• April 27 (Bloomberg) -- With Mitt Romney raising private funds for the fall campaign, this years presidential election will be the first since the Watergate scandal in which neither major partys nominee accepts federal funding.
(San Francisco Gate)
• President Richard Nixon, Dec. 24, 1971. NARA National Archives and Records Administration via Wikimedia Commons. Nixon is back. Back from the dead to haunt us once again with his lies. With his one Big Lie. The one he got away with.
(Slate)
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charles Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80.
(msnbc.com)
• The Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal is far worse for President Barack Obama than the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals that beset Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, respectively, author and journalist Katie Pavlich tells Newsmax.
(NewsMax.com)
• The Bo Xilai scandal—having passed through its le Carré and Enron stages—has entered the Watergate chapter, though it's not at all clear where the story goes from here.
(The New Yorker)
• DALLAS TWP.
(Standard Speaker)
• Thomas Mallon: Author, critic and the director of the Creative Writing program at The George Washington University. Kerri Miller (host): Im Kerri Miller and now were in depth on the fictional version of Watergate.
(Marketplace.publicradio.org)
• The so-called hatchet man for President Richard Nixon died over the weekend, less than two months before the 40th anniversary of the notorious Watergate break-in.
(YAHOO!)
• With Mitt Romney raising private funds for the fall campaign, this years presidential election will be the first since the Watergate scandal in which neither major partys nominee accepts federal funding.
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)