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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 led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.
Audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff surfaced during the Watergate scandal in 1973 and 1974, leading to Nixon's resignation.
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 ...
A look at the Watergate scandal timeline that brought down the Nixon presidency.
Today's Highlights in History: On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed using the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court.
In the eyes of some legal analysts, the fact that Nixon never stood trial over allegations related to the Watergate scandal emboldened future presidents to test the system, especially the maverick ...
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 ...