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Jun 14, 2022 · By the following January, seven men (‘the Watergate Seven’) went on trial for their involvement: five pleaded guilty, with the other two – former Nixon aides G Gordon Liddy and James W McCord – convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping. Soon after, a letter written by McCord alleged that five of the defendants had been pressured ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The Watergate scandal of the early 1970s began with a burglary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters, located at the time in the Watergate Hotel, and ended with the resignation ...
Jun 13, 2022 · 10 min. On June 18, 1972, The Washington Post ran a front-page story on a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate building in D.C. The story, the first to run in The ...
The story of Watergate has an intriguing historical and political background, arising out of political events of the 1960s such as Vietnam, and the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1970. But the chronology of the scandal really begins during 1972, when the burglars were arrested.
The Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Office. The Special Prosecutor. The prosecution of the Watergate burglars was initially led by career prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. After the release of McCord’s letter to Sirica alleging a larger conspiracy, pressure mounted to appoint an independent special prosecutor.
The Watergate story that eventually swept the president of the United States into its vortex first surfaces as newspaper accounts of the arrest on charges of second-degree burglary of five men in the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. In the days following the arrests the ...
Extract 1: The Great Cover-Up. I began working on the Watergate story on June 17, 1972, only hours after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. I was city editor of The Washington Post and had seen my share of crime stories. But from the start, I had never seen one as tantalizing as this.
