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The Watergate scandal refers to a political scandal in the United States in the 1970s. Named for the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., effects of the scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, President of the United States, on August 9, 1974. It also resulted in the indictment and conviction of several Nixon administration officials. The scandal began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The men were connected to the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President by a slush fund[1] and investigations conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, House Judiciary Committee and the news media. President Nixon's staff conspired to cover up the break-in.[2] As evidence mounted against the president's staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in a Senate investigation, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations.[3][4] Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in.[2][5] After a series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes; he ultimately complied. Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974.[6][7] His successor, Gerald Ford, would issue a pardon unto President Nixon.
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1. Frost Nixon Tickets- From Broadway Play to Big Screen
October 24, 2008
StubHub.com is your source for Frost Nixon tickets.The year is 1973 and Nixon is President, but not for long as the world watches the fall of this man from greatness. Nixon was brought down by a scandal within his own administration, something that proved impossible to recover from. He was impeached, and moved out of the White House on August 8, 1974 after ensuring that House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford would replace him as president. The Watergate scandal, which involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices during the 1972 reelection campaign for Richard Nixon. Several ... (read more)
Author: Phoebe Wickliffe
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2. The Most Important Film of the Seventies
December 09, 2007
All The President's Men was a 1976 movie that depicted the true story about the 1972 Watergate scandel. It was a courageous attempt to present how Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) uncovered the 1972 Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to resign.
William Goldman's Oscar-winning screenplay, based on Woodward and Bernstein's book, details everything from the actual break-in at National Democratic headquarters to Woodward's clandestine meetings with White House source "Deep Throat," [[who was la... (read more)
Author: andrew conway
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3. Infiltrating the Democrats: Dos and Don'ts
October 13, 2006
In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon ordered a team of burglars to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., to steal the Democrats' plans for the upcoming election. While this burglary and the subsequent cover-up became known as the Watergate scandal, the real scandal, from the Republican point of view, was how few plans worth stealing the Democrats actually had. After ransacking party headquarters, the best that the Watergate burglars could come up with was a cocktail napkin with the words "Nominate a Liberal" scrawled on it. All in all, such a "secret pla... (read more)
Author: Andy Borowitz
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4. Paper Shredders Finally get some Respect
April 10, 2006
Rodney Dangerfield was a comedian who was famous for the phrase, “I don’t get no respect!”
Like Dangerfield, paper shredders got no respect for a long time, being considered primarily a tool for destroying evidence and covering up crimes. But in recent years, the paper shredder has gained respect as a tool for preventing crimes.
Most people didn’t even know such a thing as a paper shredder existed until the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, when Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein revealed the shocking news that G. Gordon Liddy, one of the people involved ... (read more)
Author: Barry Hooper
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5. Watergate Figure Backs Bush Censure
March 31, 2006
A U.S. Senate panel Friday held a hearing into proposed legislation to censure President Bush for his decision to order warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens. Among those who expressed support for the move was John Dean, President Nixon's lawyer during the Watergate scandal of the 1970s.
John Dean, who served four months in prison for his role in Watergate, the political scandal involving illegal wiretapping, burglary and abuse of power aimed at President Nixon's political opponents, says he backs the censure resolution against President Bush.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, ... (read more)
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