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  2. www.youtube.com › watchPresident Richard Nixon - Address Announcing Resignation

    After the turmoil of the Watergate scandal, and the initiation of impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, President Nixon decides to resign from office and announces the...

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  3. www.youtube.com › watchRichard Nixon leaves the White House for the last time as ...

    Aug 8, 2014 · After delivering a farewell address to administration staff, Richard Nixon left the White House for the last time as president on Aug. 9, 1974. He boarded a military helicopter on the South...

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  4. www.youtube.com › watchPresident Nixon Resigns: Watergate Scandal | Archives | TODAY

    Jun 2, 2014 · Watch a broadcast from Aug. 9, 1974: TODAY's Barbara Walters and Jim Hartz, along with White House correspondent Tom Brokaw, report on the resignation of President Nixon.

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  5. www.history.com › this-day-in-history › nixon-resignsNixon resigns | August 8, 1974 | HISTORY

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    On June 17, 1972, five men, including a salaried security coordinator for President Nixons reelection committee, were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Washington, D.C., Watergate complex. Soon after, two other former White House aides were implicated in the break-in, but the ...

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    In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, began televised proceedings on the rapidly escalating Watergate affair. One week later, Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was sworn in as special Watergate prosecutor. During the Senate hearings, former White House legal co...

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    In July, the existence of what were to be called the Watergate tapesofficial recordings of White House conversations between Nixon and his staffwas revealed during the Senate hearings. Cox subpoenaed these tapes, and after three months of delay President Nixon agreed to send summaries of the recordings. Cox rejected the summaries, and Nixon fired h...

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    Public confidence in the president rapidly waned, and by the end of July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee had adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon: obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers, and hindrance of the impeachment process. On July 30, under coercion from the Supreme Court, Nixon finally released the W...

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  7. www.usatoday.com › story › newsWhen did Richard Nixon resign? Date, speech, reason for ...

    Aug 9, 2022 · When did Richard Nixon resign? Date, speech, reason for leaving office explained.

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  8. www.newsweek.com › watergate-explainer-why-richardWatergate Explainer and Why Richard Nixon Resigned From ...

    Aug 8, 2019 · President Richard Nixon resigned from his American presidency 45 years ago on August 8, after a one of the greatest political conspiracies in U.S. history, which became known as the Watergate...

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  10. www.c-span.org › videoPresident Nixon's Resignation Address | C-SPAN.org

    Aug 11, 2014 · President Nixon addressed the nation saying that he would resign effective at noon on August 9, 1974. The speech was delivered on television from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974.

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