Watergate Florist, 2, 185, 299
Watergate Gallery, 2, 282
Watergate health club, 1, 173, 318
Watergate Hotel, 227–28, 233–36
burglaries at, 125–26
construction of, 70
Darby and, 304–36, 344–48
inventory sale, 343–44
King assassination, 77
management, 260–61, 262–63, 303–4
occupancy rate, 260, 272
opening of, 71–72
ownership and financing, 201, 233, 272–74, 302–8
protests of 1970, 116
renovations of, 206, 220, 260–61
reopening of, 358–60
restaurants at, 203–7, 359–60. See also Jean-Louis at Watergate
Watergate Improvement Associates, 112, 135, 137, 266, 267
Watergate Improvements Inc., 165–66
Water Gate Inn, 21, 22, 32
Watergate Landmark, 165–66, 184
Watergate Management Company, 112
Watergate Men’s Shop, 161
Watergate Office Building, 260, 342, 360–1
break-in at. See Watergate break-in
construction of, 70
DNC move out of, 160
DNC move to, 70–71
open house, 73–74
opening of, 72
Watergate Pastry Shop, 116, 191–93, 299, 341, 363
Watergate Post, 77, 125
Watergate Safeway, 2, 70, 116, 235, 282, 299, 342
Watergate Salad, 191–93
Watergate 600, 109–10, 111–12, 241, 252, 293, 309, 357, 359, 361
Watergate South, 309
burglaries at, 193–94
design, 111
landmark status, 334
pets at, 239
sales, 111–12, 160, 165–66, 227
Watergate Terrace Restaurant, 256, 263, 268
“Watergate Tour, The” (map), 156–57
Watergate West, 309–10
burglaries at, 194
construction of, 70
design, 88–89
lawsuit, 134–36, 201
life at, 124–25, 133–36
sales, 87–88
Watergate West, Inc., 266
Watergate Wine & Spirits, 157, 161, 185
Watters, Susan, 244–45
Webb & Knapp, 13, 54, 81–82
Webster, Lynda Clugston, 262–63, 272, 278
Webster, William, 262–63, 265
Weerasinghe, Cristobel, 126
Weerasinghe, Oliver, 126
Wehba, C. Frederick, 342
Weinberger, Caspar W., 253
Welch, Bill, 297
Weld, Arthur, 123
Well-Mannered Assassin, The (Romanones), 245
Weschler, Ralph, 10
West Alexandria Properties, 165
Westchester Country Club, 146, 148
Westmoreland, William, 185
West Station Works, 9
Whalen Company, 135
White, Lee, 34
White, Theodore “Teddy,” 100–102, 103, 128–29, 217
White House Office of Legislative Affairs, 282
Whitewater, 287, 289, 297
Wick, Charles, 227, 231, 237, 257
Wick, Mary Jane, 227, 237
Wiedmaier, Robert, 360
Wilkes, Brent, 339–40
Wilkes, James C., Jr., 32
Will, George, 265
William Miller, 151
Williams, Bonnie, 219–20
Williams, Leroy, 246–50
Williams, Tennessee, 234–35
Willie, Frank, 174
Wills, Frank, 2, 6, 139, 140–41, 162–63
Wilson, William, 227
Wilson, Woodrow, 24
Winegate, 181–83
Winston, Henry, 112, 152, 161, 201, 358
Winston, Tina, 358
Winters, Shelley, 234
Wirth, Conrad L., 30, 31
Wirtz, Willard, 73
Witch of Watergate, The (Adler), 352
Woestendiek, Kay, 120–21, 149
Wolf, Audrey, 308, 310–11, 325, 330–31, 355
Wolf, Bill, 308, 310, 315, 327
Wolfe, Larry, 303–4
Wolpin, Gail, 296–97
Women’s liberation movement, 120
Women’s Wear Daily, 119, 228, 244
Wood, Laurence, 93, 125, 126
Wood, Philip, 279
Woodard, Tom, 111
Woodruff, Archibald M., 20, 24, 29–30, 34
Woodruff, John, 119–20
Woods, Rose Mary, 2, 89, 95, 107, 125, 127, 158, 168, 172–73, 218
Workplace solicitations, 269–71
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 89
World Bank, 133
World War II, 13, 24, 40, 41, 57–58, 64, 67–69, 71–72, 97, 167, 205–6, 212
“X” envelope, 355
Yale Library Project, 67
Yang, Chang, 194
Ying, Shun Tang, 160–61
Zanecki, Paul, 274–75
Zeckendorf, William, 13
Zhang Wen-jin, 255
Ziegler, Ron, 95, 173
Zipkin, Jerry, 228, 229
Zoning, 23–26, 31–33, 37, 314–24
ZX Ranch, 256, 257
About the Author
JOSEPH RODOTA is a writer and consultant who has worked at the highest levels of politics in Washington, D.C., and California. He worked in the Reagan White House and as a top aide to California governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post and other outlets. He lives in Sacramento, California, where his play Chessman, about the final days of the “Red Light Bandit” Caryl Chessman, premiered at B Street Theatre.
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Title: The Watergate : inside America’s most infamous address / Joseph Rodota.
Description: First edition. | New York : William Morrow, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017038745 | ISBN 9780062476623 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Watergate (Washington, D.C.)--History. | Celebrities—Washington (D.C.)—Biography. | Washington (D.C.)—Biography. | Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / 21st Century. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
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