The new Watergate exhibit was unveiled Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. The exhibit includes a section titled “Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage.” (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Some of the main characters in the Watergate scandal are part of the exhibit titled “Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage.” The Nixon Foundation has criticized the exhibit as “judgmental.” See full story(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Lock picks and the original listening device are part of the exhibit. See full story(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
The exhibit has several audio components. Visitors are told that the infamous 18 1/2-minute gap in a key Nixon conversation was probably a deliberate erasure, rather than a simple mechanical malfunction. See full story(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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The Nixon Foundation asked that figures such as H.R. Haldeman be cast in a more “complimentary” light. See full story(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Media members photograph pop-out diagrams of the locations of the hidden microphones in the White House’s taping system. See full story(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Peggy Gniffke, left, of Tustin listens to audio and video of the Pentagon Papers case. Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of papers prompted the Nixon White House to establish a secret group of operatives known as the Plumbers. See full story(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
