WATERGATE SCANDAL
1972 - 1975

The Watergate Scandal was discovered during the term of President Nixon, the 14th Republican president.

WHAT IS WATERGATE?
Watergate is a building in Washington DC where the Democratic National Committee had their headquarters.

WHAT HAPPENED?
In 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Watergate building, for theft, and wiretapping. Investigations finally found out that the break-in was ordered. Additionally, various other crimes were exposed, such as political espionage and corruption.

WHO WAS DEEP THROAT?
Deep Throat was the alias for W. Mark Felt, FBI agent. He leaked information to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Deep Throat's identity wasn't revealed until the year 2005 when Vanity Fair magazine dropped the bomb in their July issue.

W. Mark Felt was on Larry King Live in 2006, talking for the first time publicly about Watergate. Felt died on December 18, 2008, at the age of 95.

See what Bob Woodward is up to these days:

BOB WOODWARD ON CHARLIE ROSE, OCTOBER 3, 2006

TRIVIA
The Watergate Scandal was made into a movie in All the President's Men with Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward.
 

NIXON RESIGNS IN TEARS - 1974
Online Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica.

MORE PAPERS
The National Archives in Washington released another batch of over 10,000 pages of documents from the Nixon presidency. What are we looking at?

Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, gets excellent recommendations from various individuals and people are urging President Nixon to make him the new FBI director. But Nixon skips Felt and appoints L. Patrick Gray instead. Gray resigns a year later because of allegations he had destroyed Watergate documents.

This from Associated Press:

Joan Felt and and her father Mark Felt look towards the media gathered in front of their home on May 31, 2005, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. Felt claims he was 'Deep Throat,' the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate cover-up to The Washington Post, his family said. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) 

What else do we find in the newly released documents?

All kinds of things regarding the Middle East, memos about whether or not to support a Kurdish revolt in Iraq, young Dick Cheney's resume of the year 1969, and documents on Elvis' visit with Nixon on December 21, 1970. Those were the days.