He famously left the Republican Party to become an Independent.
Watergate
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His release of the Pentagon Papers led to the Watergate scandal.
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Liddy was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in.
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PBS cofounder Gerald Slater helped the network become an important voice in news coverage.
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Civil rights activist, historian, and journalist won a Pulitzer Prize.
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For more than 30 years, W. Mark Felt kept his secret. He was the Nixon administration insider known to the world as “Deep Throat.”
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His failed 1980s nomination to the Supreme Court helped draw the modern boundaries of cultural fights.