A government official, business consultant, and author, H. R. Haldeman gained notoriety for his involvement in the 1972 Watergate scandal--a scheme devised by top-ranked government officials, includin...
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Today is Monday, April 30, the 120th day of 2007. There are 245 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 30, 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler co...
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Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2007. There are 313 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 21, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death...
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Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2007. There are 222 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death i...
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Today is Saturday, June 23, the 174th day of 2007. There are 191 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-write...
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Watergate figure Jeb Magruder, as he'll always be known _ not as minister, consultant or civil servant, some of his other titles _ is healing.The 72-year-old is recovering from a stroke that appare...
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President Nixon signed a historic agreement with the Soviet Union in 1972 to ban biological weapons yet also expressed grave misgivings to his closest aides about arms control as a key to peace.In ...
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Today is Thursday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2007. There are 11 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territo...
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At his sentencing Tuesday, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will learn whether he will go to prison and, if so, whether it will be right away for his conviction in the CIA leak case...
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Excerpts from documents and 11 1/2 hours of taped conversations from Richard M. Nixon's presidency released Wednesday:_Nixon, on the phone with national security adviser Henry Kissinger on election...
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' battle to keep his job in a brewing constitutional clash is riveting. Yet the drama of a political appointee fighting for survival has played out many times in De...
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H. R. Haldeman
Today in history - April 30
