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197217 June 1972 – 9 August 1974 · Watergate complex, Washington

Watergate scandal

The curving white Watergate complex beside the Potomac, seen from the Kennedy Center
Photo: Farragutful. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Five men linked to President Nixon's re-election committee were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex. Reporting by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, Senate hearings and secretly recorded White House tapes revealed a cover-up directed from the Oval Office. Facing impeachment, Nixon resigned in August 1974, the only US president to have done so.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Watergate complexCurving 1960s office, apartment and hotel blocks beside the Potomac.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: The White HouseSeen from Lafayette Square; Nixon left by helicopter from its South Lawn.Map ↗

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