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2022 marks 50 years since Watergate
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Fifty years ago, in June of 1972, five men were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Headquarters, located inside the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C. It was the beginning of one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history.
Even as Republican President Richard Nixon was cruising toward re-election in November, Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were unraveling a growing conspiracy involving high-ranking members of the administration and the president himself.
It was a seminal moment for American journalism, and the term “Watergate” became a catch-all for the many clandestine and often illegal undertakings of the Nixon administration.
It also led to 50 years (and counting) of widespread – and sometimes comical – application of the suffix “gate” to name any kind of scandal (Contragate, Deflategate, Nannygate).
Over the next two years, Nixon was implicated for approving a cover-up, with much of the proof “caught on tape” by a voice-activated recording system in the Oval Office.
Egregious presidential actions against further investigations eventually led the House of Representatives to commence an impeachment process and the U.S. Supreme Court ordered release of the tapes.
Nixon resigned Aug. 9, 1974, before he could be charged with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress. Successor Gerald Ford pardoned him. Nixon remains the only president to resign.
In all, Watergate produced 69 criminal indictments resulting in 48 convictions.
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