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Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
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Watergate scandal
1970s political scandal in the U.S.
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Richard Nixon
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
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Official residence and workplace of the US president
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H. R. Haldeman
American political aide and Watergate Scandal figure (1926–1993)
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Intelligence and covert action agency of the United States
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U.S. federal law enforcement agency
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