WATERGATE GIRL THE

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My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President. It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the womens movement stood a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner as she was then known, barely thirty years old and in charge of some of the most important prosecutions of high-ranking White House officials. Called the mini-skirted lawyer by the press, she fought to receive the respect accorded her male counterparts - and prevailed. In The Watergate Girl, Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside this troubled time in