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  2. Watergate scandal - Wikipedia

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    The Watergate scandal resulted in 69 individuals being charged and 48 being found guilty, including: [95] John N. Mitchell, Attorney General of the United States who resigned to become Director of Committee to Re-elect the President, convicted of perjury about his involvement in the Watergate break-in. Served 19 months of a one- to four-year ...

  3. Timeline of the Watergate scandal - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. White House Plumbers - Wikipedia

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    The work of the unit "tapered off" after the bungled "Ellsberg break-in" but some of its former operatives branched into illegal activities while still employed at the White House together with managers of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, including the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal. [2]

  5. Watergate scandal wasn't just a burglary, it was a state of ...

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    The two-year drama that unfolded after the burglary, with its plot twists and cast of colorful, often unsavory characters, ultimately led to the impeachment and resignation of Nixon, who was ...

  6. Committee for the Re-Election of the President - Wikipedia

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    This act helped turn the burglary into an explosive political scandal. The burglars, as well as G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures (Watergate Seven), were indicted over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up. The acronym CREEP became popular due to the Watergate scandal. [3] [4]

  7. The Watergate Hotel's "Scandal Room" - AOL

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    The greatest scandal in American political history has its roots in room 214 of The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The famed room still exists and can be booked for overnight stays for an ...

  8. The common thread between Jan. 6 and Watergate - AOL

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    The wreckage of Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart yet rooted in the same ancient thirst for power at any cost. Mysteries from both affairs endure as the House inquiry into the Jan. 6 ...

  9. United States Senate Watergate Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Senate Watergate Committee, known officially as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, was a special committee established by the United States Senate, S.Res. 60, in 1973, to investigate the Watergate scandal, with the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the ...