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Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon fires White House Counsel John Dean; other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, resign.
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Watergate scandal
1970s political scandal in the U.S.
The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. The affair began on June 17, 1972, when members of a group associated with Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign were caught burglarizing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Richard Nixon
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
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White House
Official residence and workplace of the US president
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John Dean
American author, Watergate figure (born 1938)
John Wesley Dean III is a disbarred American attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
H. R. Haldeman
American political aide and Watergate Scandal figure (1926–1993)
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John Ehrlichman
American lawyer, Watergate co-conspirator, and writer (1925–1999)
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