eli5: What was watergate?
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The Democratic party rented space at the Watergate hotel and conference center to act as presidential campaign offices. This is where they organized the national election campaign. There was a break inn at these offices which were run off by a night guard. While investigating this break inn the police were able to tie it to several members of the Republican election campaign and the Republican party. Some of whom were very senior. They also found several other crimes related to the election campaign. Things pointed to president Nixon being involved as well. As they were interviewing staff at the White House they found out that Nixon was doing illegal wiretapping of the oval office and his phone. Especially one of these tapes were of interest which were taken shortly after the break inn at Watergate where Nixon sounds like he already knew who were behind it and were discussing how they had to stop the police from investigating further. After a lot of back and forth between Congress and the White House the tapes were finally leaked to Congress. This caused Nixon to resign and were quickly pardoned by the new president.
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