Watergate scandal


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a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice

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[USA], Aug 20 make his next outing as John Dean, a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal which rocked the US in the 1970s.
What is the title of the 1976 film about the Watergate Scandal, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford?
1973: President Richard Nixon takes responsibility for the Watergate scandal but denies any personal involvement.
WASHINGTON--The Watergate scandal raises questions of moral theology, according to Jesuit Fr.
Watergate editor Bradlee dies BEN BRADLEE, below, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, has died.
During the Watergate scandal, it was a Republican attorney general (Elliot Richardson) who refused to cooperate with President Richard Nixon on ethical grounds.
3 All The President's Men (1976) DUSTIN Hoffman and Robert Redford star in the real-life story of reporters Woodward and Bernstein who uncovered the Watergate scandal.
It was even joked that Nixon had chosen the young Englishman, three years after the Watergate scandal, because he expected to walk all over Frost, rebuild his tarnished reputation.
If you've ever wondered what it would have been like to break the Watergate scandal, here's your chance.
The Bulgarian Watergate scandal unfurled at the end of March when Sergey Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), submitted a tip-off to Tsatsarov about alleged illegal wiretapping of politicians, businesspeople and magistrates which had taken place during the term in office of the GERB government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
HIGH-QUALITY reporting represents the "best obtainable version of the truth", according to the journalists who helped break the Watergate scandal.
1974: Richard Nixon announced his resignation as US president, the first to do so, because of his implication in the Watergate scandal. 1991: Hostage John McCarthy came home, five years and three months after being kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut.
Drawing on the diary he kept during the period, Kissinger discusses the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation, Middle East diplomacy, the oil crisis, revolution in South America, the SALT II negotiations, and the opening of relations with China.
The Watergate scandal of the early 1970s prompted Congress to pass the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.