watergate

26 Amendment

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The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Archibald Cox

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Archibald "Archie" Cox Jr. was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and later as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal

the tapes

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The secret of Nixon tapes' 18-minute gap revealed. Forty years ago, on Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal.Aug 3, 2014

Political suicide

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Political suicide. ... Political suicide is a concept by which a politician or political party loses widespread support and confidence from the voting public by proposing actions that are seen as unfavourable or that might threaten the status quo.

Saturday night massacre

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The Saturday Night Massacre was a series of events on the evening of Saturday, October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal in the United States

Robert Woodward

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Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, especially

Committee to reelect the president

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The Committee for the Re-Election of the President (also known as the Committee to Re-elect the President), officially abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration.

Sprio Agnew

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Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to his resignation in 1973

Carl Bernstein

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Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.

plumbers

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The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, was a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established July 24, 1971, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information, such as the Pentagon Papers, to the news media.

June 17,1972

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Watergate burglars arrested, June 17, 1972. On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac.

August 9, 1974

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Richard Nixon became the first United States president to resign from office on August 9, 1974.Aug 4, 2014

the FBI

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, formerly the Bureau of Investigation, is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

the CIA

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (

obstruction of justice

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Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is the crime of obstructing prosecutors or other officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice

Alexander Porter Butterfield

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Alexander Porter Butterfield is a retired U.S. military officer, public servant, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.

John Dean

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John Wesley Dean III is an investment banker, author, columnist, lecturer, and attorney who served as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973.

Richard Nixon

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Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

Sam Evirn

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Samuel James "Sam" Ervin Jr. was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974.

Gerald Ford

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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.

25 Amendment

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In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.