I suspect many people at some point will have regret and embarrassment over what insults they spat and how deeply they sank in our era, Peter M. Leschak writes.

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system, providing the "smoking gun" of the Watergate scandal that brought down the president, has died at ...

He is not a villain. He does not scheme. He simply acts, with total conviction, on a reality he invented. And the world keeps handing him a bigger sword, even when all he knows is how to squish flies.

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who disclosed Richard Nixon's secret audio taping system, providing the "smoking gun" of the Watergate scandal ...

Butterfield supervised the placement of a voice-activated recording system that operated at locations including the White ...

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However, in White House discussions last month, Vance appeared to have folded the moment it became apparent that Trump’s mind was already set. “Go big and go fast,” was Vance’s reported advice to the ...