El escándalo Watergate fue un gran escándalo político que tuvo lugar en Estados Unidos a principios de la década de 1970 a raíz del robo de documentos en el complejo de oficinas Watergate de Washington D. C., sede del Comité Nacional del Partido Demócrata de Estados Unidos, y el posterior intento de la administración Nixon de encubrir a los responsables.

The Saturday Night Massacre was a series of events that took place in the United States on the evening of Saturday, October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal. U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Richardson refused and resigned effective immediately.Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney …

Watergate scandal Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), particularly in the United States involvement in regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and ...

The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Covering a total of 10 acres (4 ha) just north of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the buildings include: . Watergate West (2700 Virginia Avenue NW), cooperative apartments. Watergate 600 (600 New Hampshire Ave NW), office …

Le scandale du Watergate est une affaire d'espionnage politique qui aboutit, en 1974, à la démission de Richard Nixon, alors président des États-Unis.L'affaire aux multiples ramifications commence en 1972 avec l'arrestation, à l'intérieur de l'immeuble du Watergate, de cambrioleurs dans les locaux du Parti démocrate à Washington.Les investigations menées par des …

The Senate Watergate Committee, known officially as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, was a special committee established by the United States Senate, S.Res. 60, in 1973, to investigate the Watergate scandal, with the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in …

Frank Wills (February 4, 1948 – September 27, 2000) was a security guard best known for his role in foiling the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee inside the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Then 24, Wills called the police after discovering that locks at the complex had been tampered with. Five men were arrested inside the Democratic …

Het Watergateschandaal of de Watergate-affaire was een Amerikaans politiek schandaal in de jaren 70 van de twintigste eeuw, waarbij bleek dat ongeoorloofde methodes waren gebruikt tijdens de campagne voor de presidentsverkiezingen van 1972.Het schandaal leidde in 1974 uiteindelijk tot het aftreden van president Richard Nixon

Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon.Her public comments and interviews during the Watergate scandal were frank and revealing.

Carl Milton Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t iː n / BURN-steen; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.These scandals led to numerous government …