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  1. Feb 17, 2022 · After all, there were two agency retirees involved in the break-in, McCord and Hunt, and burglar Eugenio Martinez was actively on the CIA payroll—a $100-a-month asset who reported to his case ...

  2. The Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex by members of President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign, and the subsequent cover-up of the break-in resulting in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, as well as other abuses of power by the Nixon White House that were discovered during ...

  3. Aug 16, 1973 · WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—Following is a transcript of President Nixon's address on the Watergate scandal as recorded by The New York Times: Good evening. Now that most of the major witnesses in the ...

  4. Aug 8, 2014 · A little after 2 a.m. on June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard in Washington’s Watergate complex, noticed a strip of adhesive tape across a lock on a basement door. Suspecting a burglary ...

  5. 58a. Undoing a President. The Watergate office complex — site of the infamous 1972 break-in that led to the first Presidential resignation in American history-- is still in use in Washington, D.C. On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested after breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate Hotel ...

  6. Jun 17, 2022 · When was the break-in? On June 17, 1972, at about 2:30 a.m. EDT, five men were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington. Three of the men were native-born Cubans and another was said to have trained Cuban exiles for guerilla-style activity after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.

  7. Sep 7, 2017 · Gray, Leslie and Wynell Burroughs Schamel. "Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution." Social Education 51, 2 (February 1987): 88-90. Background When Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, it was only the second time in our history that impeachment of a President had been considered.