The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate came to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of Nixon administration.
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D. C. Watergate came to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of Nixon administration. The use of the suffix \”-gate\” after an identifying term has since become synonymous with public scandal, especially political scandal. There were 69 people indicted and 48 people—many of them top Nixon administration officials—were convicted. The House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It is believed that, had he not done so, he would have been impeached by the House and removed from office by a trial in the Senate. On September 8, 1974, Nixon’s successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned him. The name of the Watergate Room 419 was booked in the name of Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate complex. The room was the first place the burglars prepared for their first Watergate-in, which began on May 28, 1972. Two days later, Jim McCord and his team of burglars broke into the DNC’s D.C.
headquarters. The burglars were prepared to break into the offices of the DNC to photograph campaign documents and install listening devices in telephones. In May, McCord assigned former FBI agent Alfred C. Baldwin III to carry out the wiretapping and monitor the telephone conversations afterward. McCord testified that he selected Baldwin’s name from a registry published by the FBI’s Society of Former Special Agents for the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon. Baldwin served as a bodyguard to Martha Mitchell’s wife, who was living in Washington at the time. Eventually, Baldwin replaced McCord with another security man, Jim Hougan, whom McCord described as’some special and perhaps well known to McCord’ He said McCord’s company was called Re-elected President Nixon’s Re-election Committee. The company’s name was called the Re-Electing President Nixon Committee, and it was later revealed that McCord was a member of the Committee’s security team. The committee was the Reelecting President Richard M. Nixon Committee (CRP) and served as the first body to serve as a registry for the Reelected President. The Committee was the only body to be involved in the Watergate scandal, which led to the creation of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (D.C.) The RNC was the subject of a book, “The Watergate Scandal: The Untold Story of The Watergate Break-in,” by John Avlon. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in 1973.
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