Search results
1 day ago · The Watergate scandal was a significant political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. It originated from attempts by the Nixon administration to conceal its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee ...
1 day ago · In a 35-minute nationally televised speech, Nixon told the American people he would reluctantly release transcripts of all conversations he had on the Watergate scandal from Sept. 15, 1972, to ...
1 day ago · Back then, in a case connected to the deepening Watergate scandal, then-President Richard Nixon claimed that all of a president’s conversations during his term in office were confidential and ...
1 day ago · Richard Nixon accepted a pardon issued by successor Gerald Ford that pre-empted any possibility of criminal consequence over the Watergate scandal, while Bill Clinton struck a deal with ...
- 11 min
1 day ago · President Nixon was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal in 1973, but he was not prosecuted then, because the Justice Department and the special prosecutor believed a ...
1 day ago · In September 1974, President Gerald Ford, who succeeded Nixon following his resignation, pardoned Nixon for any crimes he may have committed in relation to Watergate and throughout his presidency.
1 day ago · President Richard Nixon, while in office, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal, but he was not prosecuted then because the Justice Department concluded that under the Constitution, a sitting president could not be criminally prosecuted.
