Watergate: How a Name, and a Failed Break-In, Became a Symbol of Political Corruption

In August 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign. In doing so he avoided a trial in Congress on charges that he misused government agencies in an effort to hide wrongdoing.
23 May 2007

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