On 9 August 1974 Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign office, thereby avoiding certain impeachment by Congress. The chain of events that brought about Nixon’s downfall began with the most famous burglary in history. On 17 June 1972 operatives of the Committee to Reelect the President had been caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in WashingtonDC. For the next two years Nixon sought to cover up White House involvement in political espionage, but the investigations of journalists, the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, special prosecutors and Congress inexorably uncovered evidence of the President’s obstruction of justice and abuse of power. [download]
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