On the evening of June 16, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., discovered a piece of tape on the lock of the door that led to the National Democratic Headquarters and set off a chain of events that would, ultimately,...

The Watergate is a complex of residential, office and hotel accommodation in Washington, DC, where a suite of rooms had been rented by the Democratic Party National Committee for the presidential election campaign of 1972. These rooms were burgled by a...

Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon, that began with five men being arrested after breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex...

The body of former President Gerald Ford lies in state for public viewing at Washington's Capitol Rotunda again today. President Bush and his wife, Laura, planned to view the casket this afternoon upon their return to Washington after spending the holiday at their Texas ranch....

A steady stream of up to 2,500 people an hour walked slowly past the casket of Gerald R. Ford, paying their final respects to a man whose presidency helped the nation recover from the Watergate scandal.For Warren Bank, 53, of Portland, Maine, the scene Sunday...

For nearly 20 years, visitors to the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace were told the Watergate scandal was really a "coup" by Nixon's rivals and the investigative reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein offered bribes for their nation-shaking scoops.Now, as the privately run...

President Bush on Tuesday night called the late President Ford a "great American" who helped heal the nation after Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace over the Watergate scandal."The American people will always admire Gerald Ford's devotion to duty, his personal character and the honorable conduct...

The effects of Watergate on America

Probably the biggest conflict in the Watergate scandal was between the White House and the press. The White House did not want to give up information that would inevitably be available to the press. Nixon and his White House aids did not want to give their tapes to the press because they wanted to protect the President under the guise of national security.