Watergate scandalin a sentence
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The Watergate scandal is named after the Watergate Complex--a real estate development in Washington D.C. where the scandal took place.
Watergate scandal = a political scandal involving abuse of power, bribery, and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1974
- Well, let me make something perfectly clear (as Richard Nixon says on those old news clips about the Watergate scandal, right before he's about to fill the room with fog) I am not immortal.† (source)
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- During the slow spells, Mr. Becker and I watched the Watergate hearings on a little black-and-white TV.† (source)
- Americans got bored with hearing about Vietnam before they got out of Vietnam; Americans got bored with hearing about Watergate, and what Nixon did or didn't do—even before the evidence was all in.† (source)
- Just as well: I spent the night surfing the Web (no porn, I swear) and reading The Final Days, a book about Richard Nixon and Watergate.† (source)
- I can't remember if it was E. Howard Hunt or G Gordon Liddy who said, during the Watergate hearings, that he'd nightly held his hand in a candle flame till his palm burned to assure himself he could stand up to torture.† (source)
- Watergate.† (source)
- In late 1984 and early 1985, I had visits from two prominent Western statesmen, Lord Nicholas Bethell, a member of the British House of Lords and the European Parliament, and Samuel Dash, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a former counsel to the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee.† (source)
- "Watergate," he said.† (source)
- I was standing by a model of a confidential shredder called the Watergate, talking to a sales rep about some technical matter, educating myself, jotting notes as we talked, and that's when I saw the woman in a row of new computer products, dressed in tense denims and carrying a shoulder bag with a satin applique—not one of us.† (source)
- People actually trusted their government, even though Vietnam and Watergate were about to change that.† (source)
- That had to be the most idiotic intelligence operation in the history of the world, with the possible exception of President Nixon's lunatic break-in at Watergate.† (source)
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- Dennis Hoagland said that in our time there were only two or three worth talking about, for complexity, fascination, depth of involvement: JFK, Watergate, the attempt on the Pope.† (source)
- We respected the Presidency as a place of honor until the shock of Watergate.† (source)
- Ford realized that America needed to begin healing from the wounds of Watergate, and that he was the only man who could make that possible.† (source)
- The Watergate Apartments "Excuse me.† (source)
- Henderson had a modest one-bedroom condo in the Watergate complex, an irony that he himself had considered many times.† (source)
- Sure, welcome to the Watergate.† (source)
- ——Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!"† (source)
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