New window opens on Nixon presidency with release of tapes from early Watergate days

September 30th, 2009 Marshal who served Nixon with subpoenas dead at 81TARZANA, Calif. — A U.S. marshal who served former President Richard Nixon with two Watergate-related subpoenas at his California home has died.

August 28th, 2009 Who needs a smoking gun? Here's the hot pants tapeWASHINGTON — On April 9, 1971, President Richard Nixon conferred with aides on how to get Ted Kennedy followed, or "covered," in hopes of catching the senator doing something scandalous. Nixon, chief of staff H.R.

August 28th, 2009 Nixon dug deep for dirt on Ted KennedyWASHINGTON — President Richard Nixon considered Ted Kennedy such a threat that he tried to catch Kennedy cheating on his wife, even ordering aides to recruit Secret Service agents to spill secrets on the senator's behavior. "Do you have anybody in the Secret Service that you can get to?" Nixon asked his aide John Ehrlichman in a stark series of Oval Office conversations about Kennedy before the 1972 election.

August 15th, 2009 Watergate attracts at least 6 potential buyersWASHINGTON — The lender holding the $40 million note on the closed Watergate Hotel says at least six potential buyers are interested in acquiring the landmark property. PB Capital took back the property after no one entered a bid during an auction last month.

July 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Washington's Watergate Hotel, site of the 1972 burglary that led to the downfall of a president, was sold Tuesday to a subsidiary of Deutsche Postbank after an auction failed to attract much interest. The subsidiary, PB Capital, bought the Watergate from Monument Realty for $25 million with the only bid for the hotel, David Astrove, an attorney for PB Capital, confirmed.

July 21st, 2009 Watergate Hotel set to go on D.C. auction blockWASHINGTON — The Watergate Hotel that is part of a complex made famous by a presidential scandal is heading to the auction block.

July 21st, 2009 Auction set to begin for Watergate Hotel in D.C.WASHINGTON — The Watergate Hotel, made famous by the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, is heading to the auction block. Alex Cooper Auctioneers is scheduled to start taking bids on the Washington, D.C., landmark Tuesday morning.

July 16th, 2009 Watergate Hotel could be auctioned off next weekWASHINGTON — The Watergate Hotel made famous by a presidential scandal is expected to be on the auction block next week. Alex Cooper Auctioneers is announcing that it will take bids Tuesday on the Washington landmark.

July 3rd, 2009 Ex-Nixon aide Herbert Klein dies at 91 in Calif.SAN DIEGO — Herbert G. Klein, Richard Nixon's ex-White House director of communications and a former editor for Copley Newspapers, has died.

June 23rd, 2009 Nixon tapes, papers weigh in on fateful daysWASHINGTON — With an air of desperation, a hunkered down White House hatched a plan to save Richard Nixon's presidency as the Watergate crisis began to consume it: Demonize the prosecutor in the eyes of lawmakers and the people. The effort fell flat.

June 23rd, 2009 Window opens on fateful days of Nixon presidencyWASHINGTON — When the Watergate scandal grew into a full-bore crisis unraveling Richard Nixon's presidency, aides hatched a "game plan" to save him. The idea: Convince lawmakers that the Watergate prosecutor was a zealot holding a "pistol to the head" of the president.

June 16th, 2009 Watergate planner Hunt's FBI file releasedMIAMI — Watergate break-in planner E. Howard Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had "executive authorization," according to FBI documents released two years after his death.

June 6th, 2009 Cuban-born Watergate burglar dies in Florida at 92MIAMI — Bernard Leon Barker, one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America's biggest political scandal, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92. The Cuban-born former CIA operative who also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion died at his home after being taken to the Veteran's Administration Medical Center the night before, said his stepdaughter, Kelly Andrad.

June 2nd, 2009 Actress Nixon pushes same-sex marriage in NYALBANY, N.Y. — Actress Cynthia Nixon is lobbying New York lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage and says she hopes to marry her partner in New York next year if the law is enacted.

May 14th, 2009 Ali Wentworth: Watergate turned me funnyNew York — Ali Wentworth is practically Washington royalty. Her father was a Washington Post reporter, her mom was Nancy's Reagan's White House social secretary and she's married to politico-turned ABC newsman George Stephanopoulos.