NYC Gallery Selling Original Watergate Courtroom Sketches
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Titled “Alone in Oval Office,” this pastel imagines Nixon shedding a tear as he prepares to sign his letter of resignation. While the resignation took place on August 9, 1974, the drawing is dated 1975. Reiter might have prepared the drawing for a television program recapping the Watergate saga.
Courtesy Online Gallery 98G. Gordon Liddy and wife Frances Liddy, c. 1973/74, $1500. G. Gordon Liddy was one of the “White House Plumbers” who organized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate and the earlier burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in Los Angeles. Liddy and the other “plumbers” were tried for the Watergate burglary in 1973, and for the California burglary in 1974. It’s unclear from which trial this drawing dates.
Courtesy Online Gallery 98John Dean goes to testify, 1973, $1800. As White House Counsel, John Dean often met with President Nixon and his top staff, and played a central part in the Watergate cover-up. His decision to testify against his White House colleagues was a key turning point in the Watergate scandal. In summer 1973, Dean appeared in front of the Senate Watergate committee. He later met with prosecutors and testified in grand jury hearings (likely the scene here).
Courtesy Online Gallery 98Haldeman listens to Nixon White House tapes, October 1974, $2500. Central to the court case were Nixon’s secret White House audiotapes, admitted as evidence after the Supreme Court’s ruling on July 24, 1974. Headphones were distributed to everybody in the courtroom.
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