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    The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Covering a total of 10 acres (4...
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    The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting...
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    Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex by...
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    Watergate's Deep Throat. On June 17, 1972, police arrested five men inside the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Complex in...
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    burglarizing the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate complex, along with their two handlers, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy...
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  • National Committee offices in the Watergate complex. Vintage Cakes (2012) by baker Julie Richardson describes a Watergate cake made from "a pistachio layer...
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    Watergate scandal, with the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex...
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    , about a break-in, the night before, at DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex. Simons took charge and with help from fellow editors Barry Sussman...
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    Performing Arts, Friendship Lodge Odd Fellows Hall, and the Watergate complex, site of the Watergate scandal's burglaries that led to President Richard Nixon's...
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  • Look up watergate or Watergate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Watergate refers to the Watergate scandal, a 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel by...
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    Frank Wills (security guard) (category Watergate scandal investigators)
    Committee inside the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Then 24, Wills called the police after discovering that locks at the complex had been tampered...
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    Virgilio Gonzalez (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
    National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The break-in led to the Watergate scandal and the eventual resignation of...
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    G. Gordon Liddy (category Lawyers disbarred in the Watergate scandal)
    of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration. Working alongside E. Howard Hunt...
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    committee broke into the Watergate complex to wiretap the Democratic National Committee's headquarters as part of the Watergate scandal. McGovern's general...
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  • All the President's Men (film) (category Watergate scandal in film)
    aesthetically significant". On June 17, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate complex finds a door's bolt taped over to prevent it from locking. He calls...
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    Carl Bernstein (category Watergate scandal investigators)
    break-in at the Watergate office complex that had occurred earlier the same morning. Five burglars had been caught red-handed in the complex, where the Democratic...
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    John Dean (category Lawyers disbarred in the Watergate scandal)
    National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., and to the Watergate scandal. The burglars' first break-in attempt...
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    family move to Washington, D.C., and their home in the fashionable Watergate complex was estimated at the time to be worth US$140,000. Mitchell first came...
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    H. R. Haldeman (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
    Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal. Born in California, Haldeman served in the Navy Reserves in World...
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    Jeb Stuart Magruder (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
    in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal. He served President Richard Nixon in various capacities, including...
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    Mark Felt (category Watergate scandal investigators)
    Investigation (FBI) from 1942 to 1973 and was known for his role in the Watergate scandal. Felt was an FBI special agent who eventually rose to the position...
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  • Silent Coup (category Books about the Watergate scandal)
    break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate Complex which had been undertaken to obtain information to be used against...
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    James W. McCord Jr. (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
    National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The arrests led to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. McCord asserted...
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    for a more curvy, spaceship-inspired building similar to how the Watergate complex appears today. An extension to the Durell Stone Building was designed...
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    Robert Mardian (category People convicted in the Watergate scandal)
    administration of Richard Nixon, and was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations...
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  • Hunt and Liddy plotted the Watergate burglaries and other clandestine operations for the Nixon administration. In the Watergate scandal, Hunt was convicted...
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    Zirinsky. Stahl's prominence grew after she covered Watergate. "I found an apartment in the Watergate complex, moved all my stuff from Boston, and didn't miss...
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  • officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff surfaced during the Watergate scandal in 1973 and 1974, leading to Nixon's resignation. In February...
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    Bob Woodward (category Watergate scandal investigators)
    Bernstein, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and...
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    weeks hiding from public attention in her mother's residence at the Watergate complex. News of Lewinsky's affair with Andy Bleiler, her former high school...
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