Nixon Resignation Still Resonates 40 Years After Watergate

Forty years ago on August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon became the only American 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.   It is a scandal that left a huge impact on national politics and some of the reforms enacted in its wake continue to...

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