Watergate Scandal
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Watergate was a designation of a major U.S. scandal that began with the
burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic party's headquarters, later engulfed
President Richard M. Nixon and many of his supporters in a variety of illegal
acts and culminated in the first resignation of a U.S. president.
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.... investigation of
the burglary, Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and
announced the dismissal of Dean U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst
resigned as well. The new attorney general, Elliot Richardson, appointed a
special prosecutor, Harvard Law School profesor Archibald Cox, to conduct a
full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in. In May of 1973, the Senate
Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings, with Senator Sam
Ervin of North Caroli ....
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