Events / Reconvening Senate Watergate Committee Staff

Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue

March 25, 2022 – September 5, 2022 The break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Complex on June 17, 1972, quickly escalated to become a political and legal crisis that reached the highest levels of the United States government. Today, fifty years after the incident took place in Washington, D.C., “Watergate” stands…Read more…

Watergate: 50 Years Later - Key Watergate Investigative Staff to Assemble for First Time In Room on Capitol Hill Where Famous Senate Hearings Were Held

June 17th Event to Pair Prominent Watergate Investigators with Political Leaders, Press and Experts to Reflect on Watergate’s Legacy and the State of Democracy in the U.S. – Including January 6 Committee Investigation and Hearings On Friday, June 17th, from 5:00 to 7:30pm, the historic Watergate Senate Select Committee, House Judiciary Committee, Special Prosecutor’s staff,…Read more…

Library of Congress – Fifty Years of Watergate

June 17, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of Watergate – a scandal that, to this day, remains a central aspect of American life and continues to define modern-day political controversy. Margaret Sullivan will moderate a discussion with Dwight Chapin, Leonard Downie Jr., Rick Perlstein, and Leah Wright Rigueur on the influence and importance of Watergate…Read more…

Slow Burn: A Podcast About Watergate

The first televised soap-opera debuts, but it’s Congressional hearings. As the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges, and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin the unlikely star.