Watergate scandal

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• The 1970s were a time when the United States lost much of its moral authority in the wake of Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, and when America became conspicuously engaged in the circuits and subject to the insecurities of the global economy.

  Academic text (2001)

• OPR was established in 1975 by Attorney General Levi as a response to the Watergate scandal.

  Academic text (2018)

• At least nobody died in the Watergate scandal.

  Blog text (1)

• The first reports of the Watergate scandal were starting to come out during the '72 campaign.

  Blog text (28)

• First, the Watergate scandal impeded American efforts.

  Academic text (1991)

• After the election, the Watergate scandal gradually overwhelmed the Nixon White House.

  Academic text (1991)

• In 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace... ...amid the Watergate scandal.

  Dick (1999)

• The amendments, which were prompted at least in part by the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, introduced limits on campaign contributions.

  Academic text (2002)

• A case study in failures of ethical leadership is the Watergate scandal, the bungled burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters during the mid-1970s.

  Academic text (2017)

• Only seven years after the enactment of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Section 1 was invoked for the first time in August 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in the midst of the Watergate scandal and was succeeded immediately by Vice President Gerald Ford.

  Academic text (2014)

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Watergate

vsWatergate scandal

186 5.3

A major 1970s United States political scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation

is the full formal phrase naming that same scandal

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