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Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States.
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Richard Nixon put a secret recording system in his office to record conversations.
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The New York Times started to publish the Pentagon Papers, which was the secret history of the Vietnam War done by the Defense's Department.
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Gordon Liddy and his team broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to bug the telephones of staffers.
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According to the Washington Post, while John Mitchell was serving as an Attorney General, he controlled a secret fund to go against Democrats.
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Richard Nixon was elected to his second term of office.
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The Watergate break-in trial begun.
