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John Ehrlichman

former government official, authorBorn: 3/20/1925Birthplace: Tacoma, Wash. President Nixon's domestic affairs advisor (1969–73) who was one of several White House officials imprisoned for…

Blackmun, Harry Andrew

(Encyclopedia) Blackmun, Harry AndrewBlackmun, Harry Andrewblăkˈmən [key], 1908–99, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1970–94), b. Nashville, Ill. Educated at Harvard, he practiced law…

E. Howard Hunt Biography

CIA agentDied: January 23, 2007 (Miami, Florida) Best Known as: White House secret agent involved in Watergate scandal Former CIA spy and secret agent for the…

Presidential Libraries

These are not traditional libraries, but rather repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, and other historical materials of the presidents since Herbert Hoover. The…

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Born: 7/14/1913Birthplace: Omaha, Neb. Gerald Rudolph Ford was born Leslie King Jr. in Omaha, Neb., on July 14, 1913, the only child of Leslie and Dorothy Gardner King. His parents were divorced in…

Daniel Ellsberg

political analystBorn: April 7, 1931Birthplace: Detroit U.S. political analyst who leaked the classified Pentagon papers to the press in 1971, and figured in the Watergate scandal during Nixon's…

Beau Bridges

(Lloyd Vernet Bridges III)actorBorn: 12/9/1941Birthplace: Los Angeles The oldest son of actor Lloyd Bridges, Beau's movie credits include The Other Side of the Mountain (1975), Greased Lightning (…

Diane Sawyer

television journalistBorn: 12/22/1945Birthplace: Glasgow, Kentucky Having come to Washington to help President Nixon write his memoirs, Sawyer decided to stick around in the capital to report for…

Joan Allen

actressBorn: 8/20/1956Birthplace: Rochelle, Illinois Film and stage actress whose film credits include Face/Off (1997), The Ice Storm (1997), The Crucible (1996), Nixon (1995), and Searching for…