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    The Watergate scandal was a significant political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Bob Woodward (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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    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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  • 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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    John Dean (category Lawyers disbarred in the Watergate scandal)
    until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. His guilty...
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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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    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 a small town in Southern...
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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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  • All the President's Men (film) (category Watergate scandal in film)
    1976 American biographical political drama thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Directed by Alan...
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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 (category Watergate scandal investigators)
    Investigation (FBI) from 1942 to 1973 and was known for his role in the Watergate scandal. Felt was an FBI special agent who eventually rose to the position...
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    Virgilio Gonzalez (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
    National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The break-in led to the Watergate scandal and the eventual resignation of United...
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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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    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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    John Sirica (category Watergate scandal investigators)
    where he became famous for his role in the trials stemming from the Watergate scandal. Sirica was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, to Ferdinando (Fred) Sirica...
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