Watergate Anniversary The Damning Moments That Fueled Nixon S Downfall
A team of men had previously broken into Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex in May 1972 on the orders of G. Gordon Liddy, an FBI agent who worked on Nixon’s reelection committee, to bug DNC telephones. However, it was the arrests of five men for breaking into the headquarters a month later that resulted in one of the most notorious scandals in U.S. history. The Nixon administration, which was facing a contentious presidential election against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, denied involvement in the days after the arrests....