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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 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 ...
The FBI's appearance at the crash scene was also regarded by some as unusually fast. [14] [15] Skeptics of the official narrative speculated that the plane was targeted due to Hunt's presence on board, and that sabotage of the flight was covered up by government agencies. As a result, the accident became known as "the Watergate crash.". [14] [15]
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon which began in 1972 and ultimately ...
Legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein describe how they uncovered the existence of a secret slush fund used by President Richard Nixon's campaign for nefarious deeds.
After the start of the Watergate investigations in 1973, Ehrlichman lobbied for an intentional delay in the confirmation of L. Patrick Gray as Director of the FBI. He argued that the confirmation hearings were deflecting media attention from Watergate and that it would be better for Gray to be left "twisting, slowly, slowly in the wind."
On August 5, 1974, several of President Richard Nixon's recorded-on-audiotape Oval Office conversations were released. One of them, which was described as the "smoking gun" tape, was recorded soon after the Watergate break-in, and demonstrated that Richard Nixon had been told of the White House connection to the Watergate burglaries soon after they took place, and approved a plan to thwart the ...
The four-part series, “Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal,” features the firsthand accounts of Nixon counsel John Dean.
Of the 10 original survivors of the Flight 212 plane crash in Charlotte on Sept. 11, 1974, three are still alive. Here’s what happened to all 10 of them, as well as a full list of the 72 people ...