At CBS, Kaplan witnessed Nixon’s resignation

CHANUKAH EDITION 5777 SECTION A PAGE 6 Kaplan, 71, was an entry-level assignment editor at CBS News in Washington, DC, during Watergate, the political scandal that rocked the US 42 years ago. “How about coffee?” Kaplan asks in her comfortable, brightly renovated home in downtown Denver. A Denverite since 1976, she’s lived in this congenial abode for 39 years. Her CBS News ID badges, bundled together on the kitchen table, depict a dark-haired beauty in her late 20s. “Everyone knew me as Jeanne Slavin, my maiden name.” For the uninitiated, we offer a brief timeline of Watergate: On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex. […]