The Watergate Grand Jury Report Is Now Available

The Watergate Grand Jury report is now available. It has been under seal for nearly 45 years. Here's a link to the material.

A short bibliography about the Watergate scandal.


Books

John Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years (1976).

Elizabeth Drew, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall (2015).

Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990).

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men  (1974). The first book about the Watergate break-in by the reporters who broke the story about the cover-up. Made into a 1976 film that starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (2005).


Films and Television

Dick Cavett's Watergate (2014).

Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews (1977).

Our Nixon (2013).

Websites

Watergate at 40 (Washington Post)

Watergate.info

All the President's Movies @brianlfrye @RBReich

Some law and film recommendations published at Vox. com on the subject of Richard Nixon and Watergate from Robert Reich, Labor Secretary in the Clinton Administration and now Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. 

Included, besides All the President's Men, are the docs Frost/Nixon and Our Nixon (directed by Penny Lane and produced by Ms. Lane and my friend Brian Frye, now a professor of law at the University of Kentucky), and a number of film versions of events during and after the Watergate period.

For availability of these or other films and tv series, check out justwatch.com. 

For books about the period, check out

John W. Dean, Blind Ambition (reprint 2016).

Stanley I. Kutler, The Wars of Watergate (1992).

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men (reprint, 2007).

Brian Frye also recommends Rick Perlstein, Nixonland (reprint, 2009).

Or just type watergate in the Amazon search template. L'embarras du choix.

Richard Nixon, Watergate and Pop Culture

On this day in 1974, Richard M. Nixon became the first U.S. President to resign, unable to overcome the rather deleterious effects of the Watergate coverup (and the vote to impeach him) on his administration. Mr. Nixon and the Watergate period have been immortalized in popular culture in such films and tv mini-series and books as

Frost/Nixon (2008), a film dramatizing the David Frost interviews with Mr. Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, whose own career began during the period during which the politican was Vice-President (and check out a blog post from the Daily Telegrapht about Nixon's representation in movies here)

Nixon (1995), a film directed by Oliver Stone, starring Anthony Hopkins

All the President's Men (1976), based on the Woodward/Bernstein book (1974) in which Nixon barely appears, but which he dominates

Mark Feeney discusses Hollywood's love/hate relationship with Mr. Nixon in Nixon at the Movies (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

David Greenberg analyzes the impact of that five-o-clock beard in Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (W. W. Norton, 2004)

Mr. Nixon even turns up in music: think John Adams (great name) Nixon in China (1987), and recorded in 1988.

Perhaps the greatest legacy of Watergate for lawyers and law students? That pesky course in legal ethics and all those tv shows and movies that highlight attorney bad behavior. Every non-lawyer loves trying to identify it and writing about it has become a cottage industry. Here's one example.

A complete Watergate bibliography might be impossible, but here's one from 2000. Here's one on Richard Nixon.