The Watergate Scandal involved President Nixon's secretive behavior, including creating an enemies list and wiretapping phones of his staff and reporters. In 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and were later connected to Nixon's re-election campaign. Journalists Woodward and Bernstein kept reporting on the story as the Senate began public hearings. Nixon eventually resigned in August 1974 after special prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired, impeachment hearings began, and Nixon released tapes of his conversations that implicated him in the cover up.

1. The Watergate Scandal Chapter 25 Section 3