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The Senate Watergate Hearings: With Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, Sam Ervin, Howard Baker. The Senate Watergate hearings got underway May 17 and were the major focus of Watergate developments during the summer.
Nov 13, 2017 · The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by 4 Cuban Americans and 1 American at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon’s administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement.
On May 17, 1973, the Watergate hearings began. The broadcast, as on subsequent nights, opened with Robert MacNeil reading the Committee’s resolution: In the Senate of the United States, a Resolution: To establish a select committee of the Senate to conduct an investigation and study of the extent, if any, to which illegal, improper, or unethical activities were engaged in by any persons ...
Jun 13, 2022 · About 12:30 a.m., security guard Frank Wills notices masking tape holding a door latch open between the parking garage and a stairwell at D.C.’s Watergate hotel and office complex. He removes it ...
The summer of 1973 was dominated by the Senate Watergate hearings. In February 1973, just weeks after Nixon was sworn in for his second term, the Senate voted to establish a committee to investigate Watergate. The Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities was established by Senate Resolution 60. It consisted of seven members, four ...
