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The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. The name originated from attempts by the Nixon administration to conceal its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee ...
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 ...
Watergate Complex, Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., 1965. Credit - Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. F ifty years ago, on Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon told ...
v. t. e. All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists who investigated the June 1972 break-in at the Watergate Office Building and the resultant political scandal for The Washington Post. The book chronicles the investigative reporting of Woodward and Bernstein from Woodward's ...
A look at the Watergate scandal timeline that brought down the Nixon presidency.
A new CNN documentary is the former Nixon White House counsel's first on-camera look-back at the event that resonates today. 50 years after the Watergate break-in, John Dean relives the scandal ...
Watergate is a documentary series co-produced by the BBC and Discovery, broadcast in 1994. It was based on the book Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon, by Fred Emery. The series was directed by Mick Gold and produced by Paul Mitchell and Norma Percy . The British version was broadcast on BBC2 from 8 May to 5 June 1994, and ...
Nixon married Clara Jane Lemke (1920–2013 [2]) in 1942 and had two sons, Richard C. Nixon and Donald A. Nixon, and a daughter, Lawrene Mae Nixon Anfinson. Billboard for Nixon's restaurant, Whittier, CA, circa 1955. In January 1957 Howard Hughes lent Nixon $205,000 to bail out his "Nixon's" drive-in restaurant in Whittier, California. [3]