The Latest Breaking News from Watergate

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr., a larger-than-life former U.S. senator and governor who helped create the state income tax while becoming one of the most dominant figures in Connecticut politics for decades, died Wednesday after a short illness, his family confirmed.

Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut governor Lowell P

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House

Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst whose unauthorized release of the top-secret Pentagon Papers triggered court battles over freedom of the press and led to calamity for the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, has died.

Fifty years ago, the Soviet Communist Party Leader Mr. Brezhnev brushed aside suggestions that the Watergate affair would have any influence on his coming Summit talks with the US President

"I think he's toast," predicted former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks

While White House Plumbers is another HBO hit that deserves to be talked about, one aspect could have been expanded upon to make the show even better.

It might have gotten lost in all the attention being showered on Succession and Barry, but White House Plumbers — which just wrapped up a limited run on HBO — is worth watching now that all the episodes are available to stream on Max.

In the pantheon of American political calamities of the 20th century, Nixon’s scandal looks increasingly quaint