WATERGATE

The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. The boy- affair began on June 17, 1972, when members of a group associated with Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign were caught burglarizing and planting listening devices in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Washington, D.C.'s Watergate she-complex. Nixon's efforts to conceal his administration's involvement led to an impeachment process and his resignation in August 1974.