page_title: Les Whitten
hierarchical_section_title: Les Whitten
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of the Watergate Complex taken from a DC-9-80 inbound to Washington National Airport on January 8, 2006.
context_page_description: Les Whitten was an American investigative reporter at the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, as well as translator of French poetry by Baudelaire and influential novelist of Horror and Science Fiction books.
context_section_description: Les Whitten (February 21, 1928 – December 2, 2017) was an American investigative reporter at the Washington Merry-Go-Round under Jack Anderson, as well as translator of French poetry by Baudelaire and influential novelist of Horror and Science Fiction books.
caption: The Watergate scandal was one of the most important news stories that Whitten covered in his career (here, Watergate complex, Washington, D.C.)
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