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45 Years After Watergate, H.R. Haldeman’s Wife Finally Speaks

OUT OF THE SHADOWS

The greatest political scandal in American history didn’t just cost Nixon the presidency, it cost Jo her husband. Four decades later, she is opening up for the first time—but not too much.

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On March 1, 1974 the phone rang in a red brick townhome in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood. A man promptly answered it in a rumpled button-down shirt and crew-cut coiffure.

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