Watergate Historian Kutler Dies; Sued to Release Nixon Tapes

time.com - (MADISON, Wis.) — Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, who successfully fought for the release of President Richard Nixon’s secret tapes, died Tuesday in Wisconsin. He was 80.

Kutler, who had been in declining health, died in hospice care in the Madison suburb of Fitchburg, according to his son, Andy Kutler.

Andy Kutler said his father “just had a love and a passion for the United States Constitution” and considered the Watergate scandal that drove Nixon from office in 1974 “an affront to the Constitution.”