Vintage Chicago Tribune: The paper’s role in the demise of Richard Nixon’s presidency after Watergate

In the early 1970s, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the connection between an attempted burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and President Richard M. Nixon’s administration. Their work was aided by “Deep Throat,” their anonymous source nicknamed after a popular pornographic film but later revealed to be W. Mark Felt, Sr.

But, did you know, the Chicago Tribune also played a key role in the demise of Nixon’s presidency?

Fifty years ago this week...