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Jun 13, 2017 · — -- Frank Wills, a night watchman at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., was making his rounds on the night of June 17, 1972, when he noticed a piece of tape on the latch of a ...
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Oct 3, 2019 · Seven of Nixon’s closest confidants had been indicted in the Watergate scandal, and the special prosecutor investigating the matter wanted audio recordings of some of the president’s phone ...
May 30, 2017 · Jan. 30, 1973. G. Gordon Liddy, a former Nixon aide, and James McCord, a one-time Nixon aide and former CIA operative, are convicted for their role in spearheading the Watergate break-in. April 30 ...
The Watergate break-in. CREEP eventually made a fatal blunder. On June 17, 1972, a security guard caught a group of five "burglars" in Washington, DC's Watergate office complex, home of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters. The incident seemed fairly innocuous until the FBI discovered that the burglars had ties with the CIA.
That was President Richard Nixon's first assessment of the Watergate break-in on June 20, 1972, three days after five men were apprehended for unlawfully entering Democratic National Committee headquarters. He was right—in the short-term. Less than five months later, 23.5 percent more Americans voted for Nixon than for Democrat George McGovern.
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Jun 23, 2014 · On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon met with Chief of Staff H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman in the White House. This meeting was captured by recording devices ...
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- Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Executive Office Building: Audiotapes 348-448. Oval Office: Audiotapes 746-950. Tapes will be added as the National Archives continues its digitization project. For Tapes still pending online release, contact the Nixon Library to explore copies. White House Telephone - Audiotape 001 to Audiotape 046 - Phone Conversations.
