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And this week on the Lectures and History podcast, Duquesne University President Ken Gormley

teaches a class looking at constitutional issues that arose during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

This lecture comes on the 50th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 8th, 1974.

More in a moment.

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slash donate. In the next hour, we will discuss and examine how the heroic journalist myth of Watergate took hold and why it is so tenacious.

We'll also discuss what some of the principles at the Washington Post, principles at the

Post at the time of the Watergate scandal, have had to say about this interpretation of Watergate.

And we'll consider why it matters. We'll consider the so what question. why debunking this myth matters.

Along the way, we'll have some time for Q&A.

Here are a few names that we'll encounter during our class today.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

These were reporters for the Washington Post, the lead reporters on the Watergate scandal for the Post.

And they teamed up in 1972 and were together through the scandal in 1974.

Together they wrote two books about the Watergate scandal.

Catherine Graham is another name that we'll encounter.

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