the president during watergate was Richard Nixon
In 1974, the Republican Party chairman was George H.W. Bush. He served as the chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1973 to 1974, during a tumultuous period marked by the Watergate scandal and its aftermath. Bush played a significant role in party organization and fundraising during his tenure.
This term came from the breakin of the Watergate hotel that was used as site for the Democratic party during Nixon presidency.Subsequent history has proven that breakin with those employed in the Republican party of Richard Nixon.The people were jailed and Nixon was impeached as a direct result of that which was confirmed in the infamous Nixon Whitehouse tapes. Improvement: NO. That is NOT true. Nixon was NOT impeached, you dumb people. He RESIGNED. God.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the American President during the Watergate scandal.
The Watergate burglars were caught attempting to place listening devices or "bugs" in the offices of the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. The burglary was instigated by the Republican Party to gain an advantage in the upcoming elections.
Yes. Nixon enemies, the anti-war demonstrators (one of their leaders), had papers in the Watergate hotel.
The Watergate was a hotel in Washington DC, and also an office building, where the offices of the Democratic Party were located. The Republican party, led by president Richard Nixon, wanted to find out the strategies the Democrats were planning to use in the up-coming elections, and several Republican operatives broke into the Democratic Party's offices to do some spying. This became known as Watergate because of the location where it occurred.
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Nixon was running against Democrat, Senator George S. McGovern at the time of the Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon was never arrested due to Watergate. He resigned & was subsequently pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
Nixon's original chief of staff was H.R. Haldeman. He was dismissed during the Watergate scandal, and replaced by Alexander Haig.
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