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Later English political scandals are routinely labelled '-gate' whether or not they involve a cover-up or a court. The suffix is the cultural afterlife. The 1974 resignation is the historical one. A political scandal that began with a 17 June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington's Watergate complex and became a White House cover-up.
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Watergate scandal · paras 2
School and journalism programmes in the United States, Britain and elsewhere still teach Watergate as the proof that newspapers can topple a president. That lesson is partly true and partly compressed: prosecutors, Judge Sirica, the Senate and the Supreme Court did as much as two reporters.
Watergate scandal · paras 3
Later English political scandals are routinely labelled '-gate' whether or not they involve a cover-up or a court. The suffix is the cultural afterlife. The 1974 resignation is the historical one. A political scandal that began with a 17 June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington's Watergate complex and became a White House cover-up.
Watergate scandal · Who was arrested on 17 June 1972?
Five men inside the DNC offices, including James McCord of CRP. They were tied to E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. The burglary was a political intelligence operation, not a random theft. The scandal was the lying that followed.
Watergate scandal · What did the Washington Post do?
Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, with editor Ben Bradlee, kept publishing links between the burglars, CRP cash and the White House through 1972–73. An FBI source, later named as Mark Felt, helped. The paper did not act alone: courts and Congress built the public record.
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Five men inside the DNC offices, including James McCord of CRP. They were tied to E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. The burglary was a political intelligence operation, not a random theft. The scandal was the lying that followed.
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Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, with editor Ben Bradlee, kept publishing links between the burglars, CRP cash and the White House through 1972–73. An FBI source, later named as Mark Felt, helped. The paper did not act alone: courts and Congress built the public record.
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