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The burglary that forced a president to resign

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On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. What began as a burglary exposed political espionage, a money trail, a White House cover-up, and secret presidential recordings. The investigation triggered a constitutional crisis, Supreme Court battle, and ultimately Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974.

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