‘Watergate Girl’ Jill Wine-Banks on Her Pioneering Role Investigating Richard Nixon

wttw ^ | 07/27/2020 | Nick Blumberg

[ChicagoConservative27]

Chicago native Jill Wine-Banks broke many barriers as an attorney in a male-dominated and often sexist arena. But perhaps her greatest battle was as a tough-questioning prosecutor in the Watergate case that helped bring an end to the presidency of Richard Nixon.

We spoke with Wine-Banks on “Chicago Tonight” earlier this year after the release of her memoir “The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President.” (Watch part two of our conversation here.)

Wine-Banks said she was initially hesitant to use the word “girl” in the title, but realized that it accurately conveyed the sexism she faced.

“Obviously it was disturbing, but it was how things were,” Wine-Banks said. “When I started practicing law, only 4% of all lawyers were women. I was an oddity in the courtroom; of the 4%, very few were in courtrooms. They were mostly doing other kinds of law, so I was unusual and I kind of got used to it.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Watergate girl? Never heard of her.

[left that other site]

I lived through that era, and her name is new to me too.

[bkopto]

The Rats continuously bring up their glory days of the Watergate incident while studiously ignoring the Purple-Lips scandal which is orders of magnitude greater than Watergate.

[crosdaddy]

Why wouldn’t they ignore purple lips scandal? The “opposition” Party doesn’t even mention it.

[2CAVTrooper]

“Watergate girl? Never heard of her.”

I thought killery said she was the “Watergate girl”?

[sasquatch]

Ask Hillery.

[katana]

Nixon himself and the people around him brought an end to his presidency. Yes, his paranoia was justified (they were out to get him from the late 40's onward). And he did nothing in comparison with what JFK and LBJ committed with impunity. But as a Republican he could not be allowed the same permits given out at birth to Democrats.

Speaking of which, a list of "Democrat Privileges" would factually outweigh anything connected with "White".

[sauropod]

Me as well. I remember the Sam Ervin hearings on TV.

[left that other site]

I didn’t even like Nixon at the time, watched the hearings avidly, and STILL don’t remember this “Watergate-Girl”.

[Fiji Hill]

Nixon himself and the people around him brought an end to his presidency.

For the life of me, I can't understand why Nixon forced out his Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and replaced him with Elliot Richardson. Although he called himself a Republican, Richardson was a liberal Boston Brahmin and Ivy Leaguer--the same sort of folks who had opposed Nixon since the start of his political career. Kleindienst, a Goldwater man, would never in a million years have chosen Archibald Cox, a Kennedy man, as the Watergate special prosecutor.

[shanover]

Watergate was NOTHING.

Obamagate is EVERYTHING that will fade away.

[Fiji Hill]

Why does the Left continue to revile Richard Nixon? In terms of turning America Left, he accomplished more than even Obama did. From the Left's point of view, his only sins were crushing the May Day Tribe, bombing Hanoi and saving Israel.

[TexasM1A]

So stunning, so brave, so what.

[Fedora]

A much better author on Watergate: Geoff Shepard, The Real Watergate Scandal

[otness_e]

You forgot his fully prosecuting Alger Hiss.

[John W]

Jill Wine-Volner at the time but I lived through it too and never heard of her under any name until this popped up.

[left that other site]

Oh...I remember her. Wasn’t her code name “Deep Throat”?

(((((Bad, LTOS! Naughty, bad LTOS!))))

[Fiji Hill]

You forgot his fully prosecuting Alger Hiss.

I was referring to Nixon's accomplishments as president. But to the Left, his nailing of their fair-haired darling Hiss was a crime for which he could never be forgiven.

[otness_e]

That’s Mark Felt.