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Watergate Scandal: US Vs. Nixon

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In 1972 former U.S senator and representative Richard M. Nixon ran for re-election and was opted to win. On June 17, 1972 members of Nixon 's Committee to Re-Elect the president (known as CREEP) broke into Watergate headquarters and stole top secret documents and bugged phone lines. When security guards found that the locks have been taped shut they call the police who later found the men hijacked the phones. The police were able to find little trace back to Nixon. Later on that year Nixon give a speech saying that he had no involvement in the Watergate scandal, most voters believed it because he was re-elected.

It later was found the Nixon was not being honest. A few days after the break in it was found that Nixon payed hundreds
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