Watergatey times, 54 years after the break-in

By: Conrad Zbikowski

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: June 17, 2026

Words: 928

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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In an amalgamated office hallway in Washington D.C. stands the original Watergate filing cabinet that Nixon operatives attempted to burgle and bug on this day in 1972. When Ken Martin was elected chair of the Democratic National Committee, he had the cabinet brought up from storage and displayed with the front page of the Washington Post from two days later, “GOP Security Aide Among 5 Arrested In Bugging Affair.”

Fifty-four years after that pleasant …

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