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	Watergate
		"Watergate" is synonymous with a series of events that began with a botched burglary and ended with the resignation of a U.S. President.
		The term itself formally derives from the Watergate building in Washington, D.C., where, on the night of 17 June 1972, five burglars were arrested in the Democratic National Committee offices.
		As the Ervin Committee concluded its initial phase of Watergate hearings on 7 August 1973, the hearing's television audience had waned somewhat, but a majority of viewers continued to indicate a preference that the next hearing phase, scheduled to begin on 24 September, also be televised.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/watergate/watergate.htm (936 words)

	Watergate - MSN Encarta
		Watergate, designation of a major United States political scandal that began with the burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic Party’s campaign 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.
		Soon after the Watergate scandal came to light, investigators uncovered a related group of illegal activities: Since 1971 a White House group called the “plumbers” had been doing whatever was necessary to stop leaks to the press.
		The Watergate scandal severely shook the faith of the American people in the presidency and turned out to be a supreme test for the U.S. Constitution.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553070/Watergate.html (1250 words)

	washingtonpost.com — Revisiting Watergate - Deep Throat, Woodward, Bernstein
		Decades after Richard Nixon resigned the office of the president, Watergate remains one of the top presidential scandals of modern time.
		The burglars were there, it turned out, to adjust bugging equipment they had installed during a May break-in and to photograph the Democrats' documents.
		The Watergate investigation brought fame to The Washington Post and the reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm (236 words)

	Watergate - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Watergate, designation of a major United States political scandal that began with the burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic Party’s campaign...
		The second scandal to change Ford's career was the Watergate affair.
		In 1974 the House Judiciary Committee conducted an inquiry into the role of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.
	encarta.msn.com /Watergate.html (160 words)

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		Watergate was the name of the biggest political scandal in United States history.
		The Watergate scandal began with a botched burglary in June 1972, but subsequent investigations by Congress, the Justice Department, and the news media revealed a much broader network of corruption and criminality.
		WATERGATE President Ricmard M. Nixon is refereed to as one of the most controversial presidents in the history of the United States of America.
	www.lycos.com /info/watergate--watergate-scandal.html (508 words)

	The Imperial Presidency and Watergate: President Nixon's Grab for Power
		These Watergate crimes began from the moment President Nixon took office and continued until he was forced to resign the Presidency in August 1974.
		The crimes of Watergate were thus committed because Nixon confused his self and his Presidency with the nation.
		But by concluding that disloyalty to Nixon was disloyalty to the nation, President Nixon threatened to become, as Schell agues, a dictator, undermining the basic rights and freedom that Americans have to shape and control their government and their society.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/water.htm (3539 words)

	Watergate: Small Potatoes, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Radical Priorities)
		Watergate is different only in that some of the familiar bipartisan tactics were applied against one of the two components of what has occasionally been called "the Property Party," one of the two candidate-producing organizations that masquerade as political.
		The mistake of the Watergate conspirators was that they failed to heed the lesson of the McCarthy hearings twenty years ago.
		He presided over the expansion of the war to Cambodia (with consequences that are now well-known) and the vicious escalation of the bombings of Laos, not to speak of the atrocities committed in Vietnam as he sought to achieve a victory of some sort for imperial power in Indochina.
	www.chomsky.info /books/priorities02.htm (818 words)

	Watergate \| St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
		On the evening of June 16, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., discovered a piece of tape on the lock of the door that led to the National Democratic Headquarters and set off a chain of events that would, ultimately, bring down the presidency of Richard Milhous Nixon.
		The break-in at the Watergate was only part of a larger campaign designed by Nixon supporters to rattle Democratic candidates and tarnish the reputation of the whole party.
		In the early days of the Watergate investigation, most forms of media reported the break-in as a minor story with little national significance.
	www.bookrags.com /research/watergate-sjpc-05 (1294 words)

	Watergate Scandal -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1973; he resigned his post during the Watergate scandal and later pleaded guilty to an unrelated misdemeanour charge for having not testified accurately during his Senate confirmation hearing.
		In June 1972, agents hired by the Committee for the Reelection of the President had been arrested while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate apartment-office complex in Washington, D.C. Early in 1973 they were convicted of burglary and...
		Overview of this program examining the Watergate scandal, surrounding the revelation of illegal activities on the part of the incumbent Republican administration of President Richard M. Nixon during the 1972 presidential election campaign.
	britannica.com /eb/article-9076257?tocId=9076257&query=Watergate&ct= (830 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		The American political scandal known as Watergate resulted in the resignation, on August 9, 1974, of President Richard M. Nixon, the only president in the nation's history to resign.
		Perhaps Watergate's most notable and enduring legacy has been a sense of erosion of public confidence in the institutions of government.
		Watergate only served to compound a growing disillusionment with the president and members of Congress.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=a2041220-h&templatename=/article/article.html (539 words)

	The Myth of the Media's Role in Watergate
		But it is clear that as Watergate unfolded from 1972 to 1974, media revelations of crimes and political misdeeds repeated what was already known to properly constituted investigative authorities.
		As a whole, most Washington journalists during Watergate were neither victims nor heroes; few challenged the Nixon White House's version of events during the pivotal first months of the scandal.
		Watergate's media mythology lingers, in other words, not because it is true, but because we want it to be true.
	hnn.us /articles/6813.html (2909 words)

	Wired 10.07: Richard Nixon's Last Secret
		Capitalizing on the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, former Nixon counselor John Dean has stirred up a media frenzy with a book that claims to unmask the case-breaking source Deep Throat.
		When the White House revealed that part of the conversation had been "accidentally" erased, a majority of Americans came to believe that the man who insisted "I am not a crook" was that and more.
		Watergate scholars can't help but wonder: What could be incriminating enough to make this the only Nixon tape erased, when so many hours of blatant cover-ups, dirty tricks, expletives, and Jew-baiting were left untouched?
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.07/nixon.html (1032 words)

	American Journalism Review
		While journalism schools continue to teach the lesson of Watergate as a heroic example of courageous press coverage under fire, some scholars have concluded that the media played at best a modest role in ousting Nixon from office.
		But it is clear that as Watergate unfolded from 1972 to 1974, media revelations of crimes and political misdeeds repeated what was already known to properly constituted investigative authorities.
		Watergate's media mythology lingers, in other words, not because it is true, but because we want it to be true.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=3735 (2870 words)

	Watergate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Watergate is the popular name for the political scandal and constitutional crisis that began with the arrest (June 17, 1972) of five burglars who broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building.
		As it became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), some of Nixon's aides began talking to federal prosecutors.
		Amid increasing disclosures of White House involvement in the Watergate break-in and its aftermath, Nixon announced the resignations of John Ehrlichman and H. Haldeman, two of his closest advisors, and the dismissal of his counsel John W. Dean III.
	sc94.ameslab.gov /TOUR/watergate.html (646 words)

	Amazon.com: Watergate: Books: Fred Emery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is an extensive examination of the entire Watergate episode based on interviews with the relevant participants (excluding Nixon and Mitchell).
		I was in primary school during the time of Watergate and understood nothing of what was going on (despite my father's assurances to me during the Ervin hearings that I was watching history being made).
		AS for Watergate, after the Plumbers were disbanded, many of them were rehired by the Committee to Re-elect the President or CRP.
	www.amazon.com /Watergate-Fred-Emery/dp/0684813238 (2105 words)

	The Watergate scandal
		In May of 1973 the Senate opened up hearings on the Watergate break-in and under intense pressure, Nixon had Archibald Cox appointed as Special Prosecutor to the case.
		In July things got worse as it was revealed in the Senate hearings that Nixon had a sophisticated taping system set up in the Oval Office with which he had taped all of his conversations.
		The story of Watergate is a complex and deep one full of intrigue and back room deals, public politics and personal motivations.
	ar.essortment.com /watergatescand_reji.htm (1073 words)

	E. Howard Hunt, Watergate Organizer, Dies, Man Who Helped Set Up The Watergate Break-In, Leading To Nixon's Downfall, ...
		Hunt also was involved in organizing an event that foreshadowed Watergate: the burglary of the the office of the Beverly Hills psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, published in 1971.
		The break-in was revealed during the 1973 espionage trial against Ellsberg and codefendant Anthony Russo, and was one of several incidents that led to dismissal of the case because of government misconduct.
		Watergate was one of many wild tales — some true, some not — that followed Hunt through the final decades of his colorful life.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2007/01/23/national/main2391366.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2391366 (1331 words)

	Watergate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Watergate episode began with a stunt that was both criminal but in a way ridiculous.
		Watergate could have ended with no great commotion if the White House, meaning President Nixon and his top aides, had simply acknowledged the crime, apologized to the American people and brought the offenders to justice, including those who ordered the break-in.
		All this happened over time, as the break-in occurred during the 1972 political campaign, but the real Watergate crisis did not begin until after the election was over, and President Nixon had been inaugurated for a second term.
	www.sagehistory.net /research/modern/watergate.htm (465 words)

	Scandals / Watergate
		This first "deconstructionist" account of Watergate is the acknowledged inspiration for Colodny and Gettlin's "Silent Coup" (1991), which finally put the Washington Post on the defensive.
		James McCord was the CREEP security chief and former FBI and CIA officer who taped the doors in the Watergate building, which alerted a guard and led to the arrests of the Watergate burglars.
		Jerry Zeifman was the chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate episode.
	www.namebase.org /books61.html (1211 words)

	Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt dies
		Howard Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in that led to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency, died Tuesday at age 88.
		Howard Hunt, shown in 1982, later said of the Watergate break-in: 'I had always assumed, working for the CIA for so many years, that anything the White House wanted done was the law of the land.
		Hunt also was involved in organizing an event that foreshadowed Watergate: the burglary of the the office of the Beverly Hills psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the defence analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, published in 1971.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2007/01/23/hunt-watergate.html (1792 words)

	Watergate
		The Watergate break-in of 1972 (in which, I have always been convinced, Nixon was not so much a guilty perpetrator as a guilty victim) followed Nixon's secret negotiations with Hanoi for disengagement from Vietnam, significantly advanced by his May 1972 visit to Moscow, where he signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement.
		President Richard Nixon personally ordered the Watergate break-in of the Democratic party headquarters, according to a senior aide who was jailed for his part in the affair.
		LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet, and served 41/2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAwatergate.htm (10411 words)

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