Upon taking office, Gerald Ford was determined to redeem the integrity of the Justice Department and chose Chicagoan Edward H ...

Here's a look at Watergate, the 1970s political scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. June 17, 1972 - Five men are arrested after breaking into Democratic National Committee ...

On July 24, 1974, the United States Supreme Court delivered one of the most significant rulings in American political history ...

“The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy," the vice president said Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016, and is the author ...

WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court was mulling a landmark case with profound implications for America’s democracy. The question before justices in the Watergate tapes ...

“It might be a bats--t crazy idea,” Keith Krom, a Watergate resident, would tell people, even though it was his idea. Many advised him to drop it. After all, the museum he envisioned had no location.

Donald Trump has made clear that he intends in his second term for the attorney-general and FBI director to do his bidding, obliterating post-Watergate norms meant to protect the rule of law by ...

Trump’s attorney general gave a definition of ‘independent’ that is inconsistent with the common understanding of DOJ ...

A standard-issue invitation arrived for a party in Washington, D.C., but with an odd addendum—odd, at least, to an out-of-towner. A small-print paragraph advised that the party had “been designed to ...

Capital intrigue D.C.'s Watergate celebrates a scandalous history in style. First things first: The infamous D.C. break-in didn't happen at the hotel. Richard Nixon's bumbling bur ...