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Covert Executive Telephone

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1972Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1972

Carl Bernstein8 December 1972

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Bernstein and Woodward report that figures connected with the Watergate case used a covert executive telephone, adding another communications link to the investigation.

Robert "Bob" Woodward8 December 1972

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Woodward and Bernstein report that figures connected with the Watergate case used a covert executive telephone, adding another communications link to the investigation.

Names involved

Carl BernsteinRobert "Bob" Woodward

Provenance

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