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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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Jul 24, 1974 · July 24, 1974. On July 24, 1974, the United States Supreme Court ordered Nixon to surrender the White House tapes. The decision of the court was unanimous, 8-0. Justice William Rehnquist did not sit on the case. Nixon complied with the court’s order in United States v. Nixon. One of the tapes he released came to be known as the “Smoking Gun ...
Jun 17, 2022 · Even so, Nixon was able to weather the growing storm surrounding the Watergate break-in and win re-election in 1972 with one of the biggest margins in history, beating his Democrat opponent George ...
Jun 17, 2022 · WASHINGTON (AP) — A timeline of the Watergate scandal, from the crime to the fall of a president: June 17, 1972: Five men are arrested in a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington. June 20, 1972: President Richard Nixon and aide H.R. Haldeman discuss Watergate.
Jun 17, 2022 · Tape on a door. Frank Wills, a 24-year-old security guard, was making the rounds at the Watergate building complex when he noticed the tape on a door that prevented it from locking. At first, he ...
Jun 29, 2021 · Watergate, The Tapes & The Fall Of The Nixon White House. Historian and author Michael Dobbs reconstructs how the scandal gradually engulfed more administration officials, with operatives turning ...
May 17, 2017 · Resignation After the firings, calls for Nixon to be impeached grew louder. The White House later agreed to release some of the subpoenaed tapes, but one included a mysterious 18-minute gap.
