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Washington (AFP) - Fifty years after the Watergate burglary that led to the downfall of US president Richard Nixon, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is still haunted by one question. "The unanswered question that pulses through all of this is 'Why?' Woodward said at an event at Post headquarters with his former reporting colleague Carl Bernstein. Why did top members of Nixon's re-election committee organize a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate on June 17, 1972? Nixon had won the White House in 1968, the 79-year-old Woodward noted, and was cruising ...
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Washington (AFP) - A sprawling conspiracy, a cornered president clinging to power, a White House cover-up: for Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, the mushrooming controversy around Donald Trump's alleged plot to take down US democracy is a movie she's seen before. It is 50 years to the day since five burglars were arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington -- touching off a firestorm that would bring down president Richard Nixon. The break-in plunged Wine-Banks -- barely out of her 20s -- into a starring role in the most enduring politi...
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Washington (AFP) - Fifty years since it ignited Washington, the Watergate affair remains a cautionary tale on the threat of untrammeled presidential power and the yardstick against which all other political scandals are judged. Yet some historians believe its architect, Richard Nixon, risks being displaced as the norm-breaking exemplar of presidential corruption by Donald Trump and the firestorm over his role in the 2021 US Capitol assault. Nixon's underlying crime was covering up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex to steal documents ...
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Washington (AFP) - It all began when a vigilant night watchman noticed a piece of tape on a door of the building where the Democratic National Committee's headquarters was located in Washington in June 1972. Calling the police, he triggered the Watergate scandal that would topple the presidency of Richard Nixon, the only US leader ever to resign. The tape, it turned out, was placed during a break-in by five men who had been tasked by officials with ties to the White House with placing microphones and taking pictures of documents to find compromising information on Nixon's opponents. Tape on a ...
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Washington (AFP) - On June 17, 1972, Watergate erupted, one of the most spectacular political scandals in US history which led two years later to the resignation of president Richard Nixon. Here is a timeline of how the events unfolded. Five 'burglars'On the night of June 16 to 17, 1972, five men are arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington. The so-called "plumbers," clad in surgical gloves, are armed with photographic and recording equipment. The next day The Washington Post slaps on its front page the break-in which to...
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Washington (AFP) - The break-in 50 years ago by Republican operatives at a Washington office led to the historic resignation of US president Richard Nixon -- but arguably it reverberated more deeply around the world with the coining of a single term: Watergate. Ever since the Potomac riverside building lent its name to one of Washington's greatest political crimes, -gate has become the signifier of choice for scandals worldwide -- a fact not lost on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, nearly undone just this year by his own Partygate. Over the past five decades there have been more than 200 ...
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Washington (AFP) - G Gordon Liddy, a key figure in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party's offices in the Watergate building -- the scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency -- has died at the age of 90, US media reported Tuesday. Liddy, a former FBI agent, political strategist and lawyer, orchestrated two break-ins at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Convention during Nixon's campaign for re-election. The first time, he oversaw an operation to plant bugs in the offices to help the Nixon campaign understand what their Democratic rival George McGovern was planning. When ...
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