Watergate in a sentence

And if everything is “worse than Watergate,” Watergate becomes run-of-the-mill political intrigue, not the archetype of presidential corruption.

Among other things, they discussed seeking a new grand jury in the Watergate matter as a means of frustrating the efforts of the Senate committee (chaired by Sen. Sam Ervin) investigating Watergate.

As counsel to the president, Dean arranged hush money to the Watergate burglars who tried to find material helpful to Nixon’s 1972 re-election at Democratic offices in the Watergate complex.

Dean mentioned this observation while testifying to the Senate Committee on Watergate, exposing the thread of what were taped conversations that would unravel the fabric of Watergate.

Felt met secretly with Woodward several times, telling him of Howard Hunt's involvement with the Watergate break-in, and that the White House staff regarded the stakes in Watergate extremely high.

Adviser Hamilton Jordan crafted a detailed campaign plan calling for matching Carter's outsider, good-government credentials to voters' general disillusionment, even before Watergate.

A few years later, many conservatives blamed the news media – not Nixon’s own criminal activity – for his downfall over the Watergate scandal.

Five burglars were caught breaking into the Democratic Party National Committee in the Watergate office-apartment hotel in Washington.

He has also promised that if elected, he would appoint a “real” special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Biden and his family, proposing eliminating the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence.

He was also involved in several scandals, including the 2022 revelations of systematic wiretapping that have been dubbed Greek Watergate.

In Carter’s case, the Democrats considered him such a failure that they pretended he never existed (much like the Republicans did with Richard Nixon after Watergate).

Intrigue over the 1972 Watergate break-in didn’t stop Nixon from cruising to reelection a few months later.

It added university presidents to the list in 1974, even as the Watergate scandal was prompting calls for increased transparency.

Shipka currently stars in the upcoming drama, “White House Plumbers,” which follows the inept bungling by Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy as they inadvertently toppled the Nixon presidency.

The 68-year-old Widnall, the ranking Republican on the House Banking Committee, had won 58% in 1972 – he ran eight percentage points behind President Richard Nixon – and with the Watergate scandal blowing up, Democrats viewed him as vulnerable.

The all-time low, accoriding to Gallup was in 1981 in the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate.

The man who would eventually bring shame on the White House, resigning after the Watergate scandal, was already dividing opinion when he ran for President for the second time in 1968.

There's also a lively look back at Martha Mitchell the attorney-general wife who wouldn't shut up (as she was told) about Watergate and is credited with helping to expose the scandal that ousted Richard Nixon.

There was a time, even before she became a kind of Watergate whistleblower, when seemingly all of America knew Martha Mitchell.

They also ranked their version of the "Top 10 Eyesore Buildings in the US," which included the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., and the Denver International Airport.