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HBO's "White House Plumbers" Series Films in Downtown DC
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HBO’s “White House Plumbers” Series Films in Downtown DC
'70s-era cars littered the streets and a Nixon campaign headquarters was recreated
WRITTEN BY JANE RECKER | PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Many walking near the White House Friday noticed an incongruous sign at 17th and Penn: “President Nixon campaign headquarters.”
Turns out HBO’s White House Plumbers docuseries—which follows the story of the Nixon cronies behind Watergate—is filming in town and turned a portion of DC around the Eisenhower Executive Office Building into a recreation of 1972. Here’s what some people have seen over the past few days.
Many walking near the White House Friday noticed an incongruous sign at 17th and Penn: “President Nixon campaign headquarters.”
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Jane Recker
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Jane is a Chicago transplant who now calls Cleveland Park her home. Before joining Washingtonian, she wrote for Smithsonian Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and opera.
HBO’s “White House Plumbers” Series Films in Downtown DC
'70s-era cars littered the streets and a Nixon campaign headquarters was recreated
WRITTEN BY JANE RECKER | PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Many walking near the White House Friday noticed an incongruous sign at 17th and Penn: “President Nixon campaign headquarters.”
Turns out HBO’s White House Plumbers docuseries—which follows the story of the Nixon cronies behind Watergate—is filming in town and turned a portion of DC around the Eisenhower Executive Office Building into a recreation of 1972. Here’s what some people have seen over the past few days.
Many walking near the White House Friday noticed an incongruous sign at 17th and Penn: “President Nixon campaign headquarters.”
Classic cars around 17th and Penn for filming of White House Plumbers
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Back to the ‘70s in DC this morning for @HBO series “The White House Plumbers”
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Jane Recker
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Jane is a Chicago transplant who now calls Cleveland Park her home. Before joining Washingtonian, she wrote for Smithsonian Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and opera.