There's a report that Castro's been sending money to the Democrats," [E. Howard Hunt] briefs one of his men. "He's Hanoi's favourite, too, and if McGovern's elected, he'll simply pull out our troops and the hell with everything else. The core of Hunt's memoir, as his subtitle promises, is about "Watergate and beyond." Beyond, specifically, is the wider criminal antics of the White House "plumbers." The 2005 revelation "that former FBI deputy director Howard Felt was [Bob Woodward]'s secret source -- known worldwide by the shameful title of Deep Throat, which I believe he deserves -- have stirred a wasps' nest of negative memories for me that I have otherwise learned to suppress from day to day."
Felt "was fine this morning" and was "joking with his caregiver," according to his daughter, Joan Felt. She said in a phone interview that her father ate a big breakfast before remarking that he was tired and going to sleep. Felt insisted on remaining completely anonymous, or on "deep background." A Post editor dubbed him "Deep Throat," a bit of wordplay based on the title of a pornographic movie of the time. The source's existence, but not his identity, became known in [Bob Woodward] and Bernstein's 1974 book, All the President's Men, and in the subsequent movie version, in which actor Hal Holbrook played the charismatic but shadowy source. I was impressed. My guy knew his stuff," Woodward wrote in Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (2006). "The memo was an effective cov...
[Alicia C. Shepard], a journalism teacher and media critic, notes that other journalists broke big stories, too. New York Times reporter Seymour Hirsch, for example, was first to reveal that Watergate involved a coverup and hush money paid to keep the burglars quiet. It was the coverup more than anything else that forced [Richard Nixon]'s resignation. Shepard's book is a complete work, recording both the pre- and post-Watergate lives of Woodward and Bernstein, ending with Deep Throat's unmasking as former FBI agent Mark Felt in 2005. It's a good thing he did because it has allowed Shepard to go after the real story of what these two folk heroes did during Watergate, which, after all, is what Woodward and Bernstein taught all good journalists to do.
At the same time, British talk show host David Frost (Michael Sheen, who played Brit PM Tony Blair in The Queen) toils in anonymity in Australia interviewing the likes of the Bee Gees. Frost sees the potential for a big journalistic coup staging an interview with [Richard Nixon], who left office without a word of explanation or apology for the Watergate scandal that ripped his administration, and devastated the American political landscape. With the aid of legendary talent agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar (Toby Jones), the two agree to a series of four broadcast interviews, with one session devoted to Watergate. (Nixon's price is an unprecedented $600,000.) Knowing Nixon will be a cagey interview subject, Frost and his savvy producer, John Birt (Matthew Mcfadyen), hire a pair of investigativ...
Maurice Stans (1908-1998) is remembered for his role in the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, but he was also an early contributor to the literature on the accounting profession's obligations to the general public. His writings and speeches in this area have a place in the history of social responsibility accounting. The paper discusses his writings as well as his comments collected in an audio-taped interview about his role in the accounting profession as president of the American Institute of Accountants, senior partner in Alexander Grant (now Grant Thornton), and one of the first well-known practitioners to discuss broadly the importance of the accounting profession's social responsibilities. Today when accounting scandals have created questions about the credibility and integrity of f...
This week we had spectacular news. There was a forcible entry to the national headquarters of a national political party. It wasn't done by a clumsy plumbers' gang acting under the direction of Richard Nixon surrogates who broke in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Washington Watergate Hotel. This led to jail terms and the ultimate resignation of President Richard Nixon. The perpetrators off this modern break-in were much more sophisticated. They were the RCMP and what they did was perfectly legal and authorized by a judicial warrant. They have no risk comparable to the Watergate crew. What terrible crime are they investigating? Some years ago misguided parliamentarians passed ill-advised laws purporting to limit the amount that political parties can spend during election campaign...
... the end of the Vietnam war, the Watergate scandal, Nixon's resignation, and his (at least pa...
Congratulations to the aboriginal women from the Roseau River First Nation for the courage they display in their action to impeach Terry Nelson and his crew from the Roseau River leadership. His record of mismanagement over the years culminated in the reserve's recent "watergate" fiasco. The other day I happened to be watching a very moving documentary, Shake Hands with the Devil. This film depicts a very sad and tragic part of Rwanda's history, 1994-95 during the genocide, when hundreds of thousands of Hutus and Tutsis were massacred. Gen. Romeo Dallaire was in charge of the UN operations during this time, trying everything he could, along with his UN military force, to prevent this massacre. He was there to save lives. Now a senator, he was awarded the Order of Canada in 2002. Now Dr...
More money for core area kids is fantastic news. However, community centres don't need to be managed by city hall: One size doesn't fit all. Winnipeg's community centres are as unique as the communities they serve. While suburban communities may focus on offering organized sports programs, some inner-city and North End centres have a priority of providing a safe and welcoming environment for children and offering no-cost programs and services designed to promote a healthier and safer community. What community centres really need is access to sustainable funding to employ and retain well-trained staff. It is important that the community itself employ staff to ensure they have hired someone who is sensitive to their community's needs and able to work with their volunteers. For Douglas J....
... the Conservatives their version of Watergate, nor to threaten the governing NDP with an untimel...
In the same year, he displayed his capacity to be maudlin when he made the cheesy Checkers speech. In 1962, following his failed effort to be elected governor of California, he told the assembled media that "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore... this is my last press conference." And a decade after that, Watergate drove him from office. Those who were against Nixon are likely to be against [Conrad Black] as well, so the "buckling" will be grist to the mill for those, largely liberal, critics who see some affinity in the two men. There can be no doubt that the brightest jewel in Nixon's crown was his success in foreign policy. Indeed, in 1994, at Nixon's funeral, then-president Bill Clinton said the last quarter of the 20th century was the "Age of Nixon.
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