Whiskey, Watergate, and Whitewater: How special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s predecessors made history
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr makes a point in 1998 during the House Judiciary Committee's Clinton impeachment inquiry. By Ian Shapira Ian Shapira Enterprise reporter covering the Washington region and beyond Email Bio Follow March 19 at 10:07 AM If the Internet had existed in 1875, the investigation of the Whiskey Ring by a special prosecutor would have gone as viral as any of today’s modern political scandals.
[Mueller began investigating Michael Cohen’s phone and digital data months before FBI raid, warrants show] Grant was reportedly livid. Henderson was fired shortly afterward, right before the trial of one of the president’s closest friends, White House chief of staff Orville Babcock, “a schemer of unusually insidious brilliance,” Coan wrote.This portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant was printed from original glass plate negatives of Mathew B. Brady. Henderson was replaced with another special prosecutor, James O.
“Together, these transactions culminated the most audacious and far-reaching conspiracy in the history of American politics,” Coan wrote in his book. “The plot began with the nomination of Warren Harding to head the Republican ticket in 1920. Dozens of the most powerful politicians and businessmen of the age were directly or indirectly involved. Even today, the precise scope of the conspiracy remains uncertain. But this much is not in doubt: [They] conspired to make Harding president.
In the spring of 1973, after it became clear from press reports and court hearings that the burglars pulled off their caper at the behest of top White House officials, President Richard Nixon went on national television. “I want to talk to you tonight from my heart,” he said in his April 30 address.
While the president might be right in his claim of privilege, Mr. Jaworski said, he might be wrong. “And if he is wrong, who is there to tell him so? And if there is no one, then the president of course is free to pursue his course of erroneous interpretations. What then becomes of our constitutional form of government?”
Recently, Jaworski’s role in Watergate returned to the news cycle, after the National Archives released in October “one of the last great secrets” of the Watergate investigation, as it was billed. The document was known as the “Road Map,” a sealed report Jaworski, who died in 1982, sent to Congress detailing the Nixon campaign’s funding of the Watergate break-in and Nixon’s role in the coverup.
Lawrence Walsh, a lifelong Republican and Reagan supporter, was appointed as independent counsel to investigate the Iran-contra affair. The tangled scandal, which was exposed to the public by the press, involved a domino-like set of misdeeds and criminal acts: First, the Reagan administration illegally sold weapons to Iran, which needed the arms for its war against Iraq. In exchange, the U.S. expected Iran to pressure Lebanon to release American hostages.
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