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Bluffer’s Guide                                                                          USA, 1972-1974


        The Watergate scandal






                     Did

              you know?

              40 governmentofficials
             werejailedfortheirpartin
             Watergate, butNixonwas
             notone–hewaspardoned
                byGeraldFordsoon
                  afterresigning













































        Timeline


            17JUNE1972                   10 OCTOBER 1972               7 NOVEMBER 1972                16 JULY 1973

                      Five men are arrested         The FBI reports that          Still largely untainted      Special prosecutor
                       for attempting to             the Watergate break-         by the scandal,               Archibald Cox
                        burgle the Watergate         in was only part of a         Richard Nixon wins            demands the
                        complex. The                 wider campaign of             the presidential              release of White
                        investigation fi nds         political spying on           election in a                 House tapes as part
                       they were aiming to           behalf of the CRP.            landslide victory,            of his investigation.
                       wiretap the Democratic                                     actually increasing           Nixon refuses and
                     Party offi  ces.                                            his share of the vote.        has Cox dismissed.
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