# Was Hillary fired during the Watergate Investigation for unethical behavior? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 13, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702 "2016-05-13T19:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/1 "2016-05-13T19:08:31Z")
This story just in. It seems that back in 1973 a 27 year old Yale law graduate was to be part of the Watergate investigation of then President Nixon. However she was later fired for unethical behavior by fellow democrats related to issues involving Ted Kennedy. Sources: [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp) [Jacksonville newspaper](http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2014-03-08/story/fact-check-was-hillary-clinton-fired-watergate-investigation) Now there are some other people with opposite sides: [Quora](https://www.quora.com/Was-Hillary-Clinton-fired-from-the-Watergate-investigation) [Urban Myths](https://www.quora.com/Was-Hillary-Clinton-fired-from-the-Watergate-investigation) What do you all think? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/2 "2016-05-13T19:20:51Z")
I think you should have pointed out that Snopes showed that it couldn’t have been true. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/3 "2016-05-13T19:21:05Z")
Did you read any of your cites? ETA: directed to the OP ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/4 "2016-05-13T19:31:58Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > This story just in. > > It seems that back in 1973 a 27 year old Yale law graduate was to be part of the Watergate investigation of then President Nixon. However she was later fired for unethical behavior by fellow democrats related to issues involving Ted Kennedy. > > Sources: > > [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp) > [Jacksonville newspaper](http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact-check/2014-03-08/story/fact-check-was-hillary-clinton-fired-watergate-investigation) > > Now there are some other people with opposite sides: > > [Quora](https://www.quora.com/Was-Hillary-Clinton-fired-from-the-Watergate-investigation) > [Urban Myths](https://www.quora.com/Was-Hillary-Clinton-fired-from-the-Watergate-investigation) > > What do you all think? I don’t think the word “opposite” means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/5 "2016-05-13T19:34:14Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I don’t think the word “opposite” means what you think it means. The last two links are the same. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/6 "2016-05-13T19:37:44Z")
Christ, five more months to go. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/7 "2016-05-13T19:40:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The last two links are the same. All the links seem to say the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/8 "2016-05-13T19:41:45Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Christ, five more months to go. Yep-This’ll _all_ go away after the election. _Riiiiiiight._ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/9 "2016-05-13T19:42:07Z")
Since when is a set of links from 2014 “just in”? This just in: WWII ends, Allies win. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/10 "2016-05-13T19:49:36Z")
And Generalissmo Fransisco Franco is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/11 "2016-05-13T19:52:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Yep-This’ll _all_ go away after the election. > _Riiiiiiight._ It might not go away, but it might tend to congregate in its natural habitat: right-wing blogs, radio call-in shows, and all-caps emails mass-forwarded from Uncle Earl. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/12 "2016-05-13T19:52:21Z")
What’s this I hear about a _New_ Coke? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/13 "2016-05-13T19:58:52Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > This story just in. > > It seems that back in 1973 a 27 year old Yale law graduate was to be part of the Watergate investigation of then President Nixon. However she was later fired for unethical behavior by fellow democrats related to issues involving Ted Kennedy. > > Sources: > > [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp) > What do you all think? Claim: Hillary Clinton was fired from the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigation by Chief Counsel Jerry Zeifman. ``` FALSE ``` I think you should be heartily embarrassed for posting a completely de-bunked pile of dog crap and asking us to “what do you all think.” That’s what I think. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/14 "2016-05-13T20:11:49Z")
OP - where are you being pointed to these stories? You’ve just posted this one, with cites that do not say what you think they say, and recently you posted one about a Hillary staff member chanting that was also not about what you thought it was. I’d like to know where you’re getting all of this (I’m guessing Facebook, but I could be wrong). You should be taking note that whomever is feeding you this shit is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/15 "2016-05-13T20:28:10Z")
Hey guys, he’s just asking questions. You know…just asking questions. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/16 "2016-05-13T20:29:13Z")
The OP has been too busy starting other [anti-Clinton threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=792987) to come back to this one. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/17 "2016-05-13T20:36:22Z")
> [@](#): > > …whomever is feeding you this shit is an idiot. Maybe not, just as likely the feeder thinks the feedee is an idiot. That said, “Zeif-geist” as a headline should be an actionable offense. And this? > [@](#): > > …Hillary was twenty-seven when the impeachment inquiry staff was disbanded. The next morning she took a train down to Little Rock, Arkansas. _She moved in with Bill Clinton_ and they eventually married… (Emphasis added while clutching pearls and fainting dead away…) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/18 "2016-05-13T20:38:03Z")
But… but… Snopes is a liberal bias source full of nothing but lies! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/19 "2016-05-13T20:39:54Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > …Hillary was twenty-seven when the impeachment inquiry staff was disbanded. The next morning she took a train down to Little Rock, Arkansas. She moved in with Bill Clinton and they eventually married… > > (Emphasis added while clutching pearls and fainting dead away…) Good heavens, have you heard how that man lights his cigars?! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702/20 "2016-05-13T20:50:48Z")
I know how he keeps them moist. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-hillary-fired-during-the-watergate-investigation-for-unethical-behavior/754702.md?page=2)