The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting...
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The Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex...
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president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's...
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also uncovered. The Watergate scandal, named after the complex, resulted in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974. The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate"...
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President Richard Nixon. Her public comments and interviews during the Watergate scandal were frank and revealing. Martha Elizabeth Beall Jennings Mitchell...
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paying the bribes. Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics"...
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This is a list of scandals or controversies whose names include a -gate suffix, by analogy with the Watergate scandal, as well as other incidents to which...
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investigate the Watergate scandal, with the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex...
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The Watergate Seven has come to refer to two different groups of people, both of them in the context of the Watergate scandal. Firstly, it can refer to...
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following the "-gate" construction that has been used since the Watergate scandal. Lewinsky said she had sexual encounters with Bill Clinton on nine...
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Carl Bernstein (category Watergate scandal investigators)
and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual...
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Jeb Stuart Magruder (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal. He served President Richard Nixon in various capacities, including...
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from the similar "Watergate Cake" (which shares most of the same ingredients): "The recipes came out during the Watergate scandal. The cake has a 'cover-up'...
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Nixon on August 9, 1974.[citation needed] The Watergate scandal was one of the biggest political scandals in the United States. It involved Richard Nixon...
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Watergate cake is a pistachio cake popular in the U.S. which shares its name with the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, although the name's origin is not...
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Look up watergate or Watergate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Watergate refers to the Watergate scandal, a 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel by...
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All the President's Men (film) (category Watergate scandal in film)
is a 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan...
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Richard Nixon (category Lawyers disbarred in the Watergate scandal)
the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in Yorba Linda, Southern...
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James W. McCord Jr. (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
as an electronics expert in the burglaries which precipitated the Watergate scandal. McCord was born in Waurika, Oklahoma. He served as a bombardier with...
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presidency when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which badly damaged the Republican Party and its electoral prospects...
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destabilize them thereby becoming involved in scandals themselves as well as reporting them. Following the Watergate scandal in the United States, other English-speaking...
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L. Patrick Gray (category Nixon administration personnel involved in the Watergate scandal)
of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. Gray...
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G. Gordon Liddy (category Lawyers disbarred in the Watergate scandal)
conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration. Working alongside E. Howard Hunt...
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (category Watergate scandal in film)
and Carl Bernstein and helped them in their investigation of the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The...
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and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. In the Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted of...
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Saturday Night Massacre (category Watergate scandal)
took place in the United States Department of Justice during the Watergate scandal in 1973. The events followed the refusal by Cox to drop a subpoena...
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break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters that developed into the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon...
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Robinson dies. 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five men arrested for the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex...
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Frank Wills (security guard) (category Watergate scandal investigators)
headquarters, which they had planned to bug. The arrests triggered the Watergate scandal and eventually the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974...
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Ron Ziegler (category Nixon administration personnel involved in the Watergate scandal)
was a member of Trojans for Representative Government with future Watergate scandal participants Dwight L. Chapin, Tim Elbourne, Donald Segretti, Gordon...
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