The Watergate Affair at 50th:The scandal that shook the nation

The Watergate Affair at 50th: The scandal that shook the nation Richard Ben-Veniste Law '67, former chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Watergate Task Force Host: James M. Banner, Jr. GSAS '68, Historian and Author 06/15/22 To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, please join us as Richard Ben-Veniste, former chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Watergate Task Force, shares his first-hand knowledge of the origins of the break-in on the 17th of June 1972, the attempts of the Nixon Administration to stymie the investigation, and the legacy of the scandal in the US Political system. Our host is the historian and author James M. Banner, Jr., one of the original contributors to the historical account of the misdeeds of past presidents, a report commissioned in May 1974 by the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation and brought up to date in 2019 under his editorship as Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today. Time will be allocated for Q&A.