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  2. Watergate scandal - Wikipedia

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    The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving ... Chairman Mao Zedong called the Watergate scandal "the result of 'too much ...

  3. List of -gate scandals and controversies - Wikipedia

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    The suffix-gate derives from the Watergate scandal in the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. [2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., where the burglary giving rise to the scandal took place; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on ...

  4. Watergate complex - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Watergate complex, showing the former Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge to the north, the Kennedy Center to the south, and the Potomac River to the west. The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.

  5. Watergate cake - Wikipedia

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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 clear. [1] The cake pre-dates Watergate salad , a dessert made with similar ingredients including pistachio pudding.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Deep Throat (Watergate) - Wikipedia

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    In public statements following the disclosure of his identity, Felt's family called him an "American hero", stating that he leaked information about the Watergate scandal to The Washington Post for moral and patriotic reasons. Other commentators, however, have speculated that Felt may have had more personal reasons for leaking information to ...

  8. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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    Holiday names are usually pretty straightforward. New Year's, Thanksgiving and — perhaps least creatively, the 4th of July — all have origins that are fairly easy to figure out.

  9. White House Plumbers - Wikipedia

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    The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, the Room 16 Project, ODESSA or more officially, the White House Special Investigations Unit, was a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established within a week of the publication of the Pentagon Papers in June 1971, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. [1]