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Jun 15, 2012 · POST-SCANDAL: Woodward, who still works at The Washington Post and has received numerous journalism awards, went on to write more than a dozen books, many of them on the legacy of Watergate and on ...
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That was President Richard Nixon's first assessment of the Watergate break-in on June 20, 1972, three days after five men were apprehended for unlawfully entering Democratic National Committee headquarters. He was right—in the short-term. Less than five months later, 23.5 percent more Americans voted for Nixon than for Democrat George McGovern.
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Jun 17, 2022 · Read More. Published 3:22 AM PDT, June 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 ...
Watergate was so synonymous with scandal that it became common practice for the press to tack on a -gate to the scandal du jour, from “Tailhook-Gate” to “Troopergate.”. The former president and then, after his death, his family spent a great deal of money on a legal campaign to prevent the entirety of his tapes from being released.
Watergate Scandal. On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested during a break-in-gone-bad at the Democratic Party campaign headquarters at the Watergate hotel-apartment-office complex in Washington, D.C. It was later discovered that the crime was committed at the request of the Committee to Reelect the President, who at the time was Republican ...
Watergate scandal, interlocking political scandals of the administration of U.S. Pres. Richard M. Nixon that were revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National committee headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Watergate, a scandal that changed American politics forever, including accounts from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
