What actually happened at the Watergate hotel and what did it have to do with Nixon?
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On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic party’s national headquarters at the Watergate Office Building (not a hotel) in Washington, DC. The Justice Department eventually was able to connect those men to the Nixon reelection campaign. This led to investigations by congress. It eventually was revealed that Nixon was directly and personally involved in the effort to cover up the connection between the burglary and his campaign.
Two reporters for the newspaper The Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, covered the matter extensively, relying on tips from a secret informant nicknamed “Deep Throat”, who was actually a deputy director of the FBI named Mark Felt.
Eventually, when it became clear the congress was going to impeach Nixon and was likely to remove him from office, he resigned.
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