An Artist’s Sketch of Watergate Hearing – Donated by Carl Stern to the D.C. Circuit Historical Society on November 17, 2004
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Historical Society presented a program at the D.C. Circuit’s Judicial Conference on June 9, 2010. Panelists, all active participants in the Watergate drama, probed the conflicts, tensions and personalities of the individuals who, and institutions that, played a role in the Watergate events.
Panelists included Richard A. Azzaro, Law Clerk to Judge John Sirica; Richard Ben-Veniste, Chief, Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Watergate Task Force; John W. Dean, Counsel to President Nixon and Lead Government Witness in the Watergate Cover-Up Trial; Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel, Senate Watergate Committee; Earl J. Silbert, Watergate Prosecutor as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; and Barry Sussman, Special Watergate Editor, The Washington Post. Carl Stern, who covered Watergate for NBC, moderated the lively discussion.