#watergate

#watergate

He was the underappreciated star of Sam Ervin's special committee looking into the break-in, and general campaign of dirty tricks and sabotage that led up to, activities that entered the political lexicon as ratfcking. It was Ulasewicz's job to deliver hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to a variety of Watergate participants, most notably G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt.

Jill Wine-Banks managed to get a rare Saturday off from her all-consuming job as a Watergate prosecutor to attend a family wedding in New York in late October 1973. When she returned to her hotel around midnight, a desk clerk handed her a handwritten message of a phone call from a colleague back home in Washington, D.C.: "The office has been seized by the FBI. Return immediately."

Patricia Campbell Hearst, born into privilege, was targeted by a violent militant organization, leading to a kidnapping saga that shook America.