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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:
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. Encyclopędia 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.
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