Watergate

Watergate **﻿Watergate** is the term used to tell the political scandals from 1972 to 1974. It included many different events that had to do with burglary, bribery, wire tapping, tax fraud, destruction and obstruction of evidence etc. The term Watergate was taken  from the name of the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C because that is where the scandals  first began.

Scandal TimeLine
-It all started with the burglary on **June 17, 1972.** 5 men were locked up for robbing the offices of the Democratic National Commitee. -Months later in **January of 1973** James McCord stated that he lied about evidence previously used at the urging of John Dean and John Mitchell. -**February of 1973**, a month later the senate votes voted to arrange a Selective Committee of Presidential Campaign Act. -President Nixon made an announcement of The Dismissal of Dean and resignations of Haldman and Erlichman, the closest advisors to him **April 30, 1973.** -From **May to October of '73**, Nixon had released tapes but there were parts lost. -In **Late October Nixon** released some of the missing tapes because he was under pressure to. One tape had over 18 minutes of a gap missing, there were at least 5 erasures. -**Early '74** there were calls for President Nixon to resign and Congress had considered impeaching him. -**April 30, 1974** Nixon released more tapes that contained him using bad and foul language. -**July24, 1974** the suoreme court odered for Nixon to release more tapes because he was suspected of having evidence for a trial previously passed. -**August 5,1974** Nixon released more tapes proving he ordered to cover up the burglary 6 days after the break in. The tapes were called "smoking gun". Also on this day, the 11 republincans who voted not to impeach Nixon previously considered changin there mind. -**August 9th**, President Richard Nixon resigned. He was the first president to do this. Gerald Ford became the 38th president. Ford granted Nixon a "full free and absense pardon".