Judge Orders Nixon Grand Jury Testimony Unsealed

Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post
Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:53am

A federal judge has ordered the government to unseal grand jury transcripts of testimony by former President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by a historian and several historical associations, Chief U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the transcripts to be unsealed. The testimony was taken near Nixon’s California home in 1975 – after he had resigned in the wake of the scandal. Read full article >>

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