Watergate: Twentieth-Century Constitutional Crisis

by Thomas Maxwell-Long

Book Overview

The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States stemming from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. Effects of the scandal eventually led to the resignation of the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, on August 9, 1974. This remains the only resignation of any US President. It also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041550645X
• ISBN13: 9780415506458
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages