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Montevideo, April 27th 2024 - 10:07 UTC

Tag: Watergate scandal

  • Saturday, August 9th 2014 - 05:49 UTC

    Forty years ago Watergate forced Nixon to became the only US president to resign

    Nixon: “to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first.”

    Forty years ago on August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon became the only US president to resign from office. His departure came because of his involvement in the Watergate scandal and subsequent cover-up, which began when Republican campaign operatives broke into Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington in June of 1972.