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David Broder: Instant Reactions to the Legendary Journalist's Death
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsDavid Broder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was known as "the dean of the Washington press corps," has died at the age of 81. The Washington Post, which published his twice-weekly column, reports that the cause of death was complications from diabetes. Broder won a Pulitzer in 1973 for his coverage of the Watergate scandal. We'll have more on this story, but for now, some first reactions to Broder's passing. From journalist Dave Weigel, via Twitter: .bbpBox45544602832343040 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/a/1299177371/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: United States v. Nixon
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the 10th and final column in a Politics Daily series complementing C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The last tape in the series focuses on the epic United States v. Nixon, a case that effectively ended a presidency in 1974. It will be heard on C-SPAN Radio at 6 ...
New Nixon Tapes, Documents Released From Watergate Era
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- Newly released audiotapes and secret documents from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library show a president obsessed with controlling the media and his public persona during the latter stages of his doomed administration. The California library has displayed and posted online 265 hours of secretly taped White House conversations from February to March 1973, as well as others from early April 1973 -- while the Vietnam War raged and Nixon found himself increasingly unpopular because of news reports unraveling the Watergate scandal. AP Among the documents released by the Richard ...
Politics in Our Movies: From 'Mr. Smith' to 'Casino Jack'
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll across America this lame-duck congressional season, we're driving past malls or walking down Main Streets where theater marquees offer two major motion pictures "about" politics: "Casino Jack" starring Kevin Spacey and "Fair Game" starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But the truth is, every movie is "about" politics. Every work of art creates a vision of reality and rules for that realm. Even when a movie is not a fact-driven documentary, what's on film are "people" making choices of conscience and circumstance. On some level, choice always involves politics -- and that includes the ...
Dancing Bear-Gate Strikes The Washington Post
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsANALYSIS (Nov. 3) -- The Washington Post has a long and storied tradition of groundbreaking journalism, the pinnacle of which still arguably remains the Watergate investigation. As recently as Monday, staff writer Andrew Higgins produced a great story on U.S. military contracts to shady operators in Kyrgyzstan. Unfortunately, Higgins story didn't go far enough to remove the self-administered taint on the Post that came a couple of weeks ago, when it posted prominently a video of dancing bears on its website. The segment was introduced by a new hire who's supposed to promote the paper's ...
6 Decades at Justice: Career Touched by McCarthyism, Mafia and Watergate
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe comforting, even noble tale of John C. Keeney is a story too often left untold in official Washington. It is the story of a man who rarely tooted his own horn, who did his job, who minded his own business, who selflessly filled in when others failed, and who enjoyed what he calls today a "smooth career" of extraordinary public service. No matter which party runs Capitol Hill or the White House, Washington itself wouldn't work without government officials like Keeney. Here's an illustration of his mettle. In 2000, to commemorate Keeney's nearly 50 years of work as an attorney at the ...
William Saxbe, Outspoken Ohio Senator and Nixon AG, Dead at 94
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOhio's William B. Saxbe, an outspoken senator who challenged Richard Nixon's Vietnam policies only to be named Nixon's attorney general, was a Republican maverick well before John McCain entered politics. And Saxbe, who died Tuesday at the age of 94, never denied it. Saxbe was an unpretentious, tobacco-chewing gentleman farmer from tiny Mechanicsburg in western Ohio, where he was an avid hunter in his time away from government and politics. He served as speaker of the Ohio House, Ohio Attorney General and U.S. senator, elected in 1968 over Democrat John J. Gilligan. In 1973, while Saxbe was ...
On the Anniversary of Nixon's Resignation: An Ode to Martha Mitchell
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyI was a political geek at an early age, thanks to Richard M. Nixon. One of my earliest memories is twirling around the house at age 3 wearing a floppy white hat with "Nixon" stamped in red, white and blue. I didn't know a Republican from a Democrat. I only knew he was president and one of my father's friends had given me the hat during Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972. That hat, which got lost in the trash bags of time, married me to Nixon, who resigned 36 years ago today from the White House. My mom would read the newspaper to me every afternoon – national news, editorials, ...
Daniel Schorr, Pioneering Newsman on Nixon's 'Enemies List,' Dead at 93
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDaniel Schorr, the pioneering broadcast journalist who earned his way on to President Nixon's "enemies list," died Friday at a Washington hospital after a short illness. He was 93. Schorr made his name as a hard-hitting, blunt talking reporter for CBS News dating back to Edward R. Murrow's team, which brought television news into the modern era. Schorr's career spanned six decades, starting with newspapers, moving on to CBS, and finally commentary with a liberal bent for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. During the Nixon years, Schorr worked on the Watergate story for CBS, but then ...
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