Law: Watergate Ghosts Rise Again

Two ex-officials win a pardon; two others have new troubles

Richard Nixon lives quietly on Manhattan's East Side nowadays, H.R. Haldeman works for a low-profile Los Angeles real estate firm, and Deep Throat has long since fallen silent. But as the events of last week emphasized, the ghosts of Watergate still rise into the nation's headlines from time to time. In three widely varied legal actions, prominent figures from that inglorious era were exonerated, embroiled in a new scandal or re-attacked for an old one. Without even petitioning for it, two top former FBI officials won...

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