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2 days ago · The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.
21 hours ago · Indeed, Watergate and the last days of the Nixon presidency are serving as a playbook for party elders, many of whom were politically engaged during that period, as they try to prod the 46th ...
1 day ago · On June 23, 1972, less than a week after the arrest of the Watergate burglars at Democratic National Headquarters, Nixon directed his Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to call the director and deputy ...
1 day ago · The impeachment process against Richard Nixon was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on October 30, 1973, during the course of the Watergate scandal, when multiple resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon were introduced immediately following the series of high-level resignations and firings widely ...
1 day ago · Richard Nixon - Watergate, Resignation, Impeachment: Renominated with Agnew in 1972, Nixon defeated his Democratic challenger, liberal Sen. George S. McGovern, in one of the largest landslide victories in the history of American presidential elections: 46.7 million to 28.9 million in the popular vote and 520 to 17 in the electoral vote.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · I served as Nixon’s White House counsel until he fired me in April 1973 for seeking to end the Watergate cover-up by openly cooperating with the investigation of the White House’s involvement ...
4 days ago · The remaining one-third of the book is an unconventional account of the Watergate scandal. Stone portrays Nixon as a "confused victim" and claims that John Dean orchestrated the break-in (which he depicts as ordinary politics of the time) to cover up involvement in a prostitution ring.
