Editing Watergate scandal (section)

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|image=Watergate.webp
|date=June 1972 - August 1974
|perpetrator = [[Richard Nixon]]<br>[[Henry Kissinger]]<br>[[Committee for the Re-Election of the President]]<br>[[White House Plumbers]]|motive = Political|crimes = Burglary<br>Conspiracy<br>Illegal wiretapping<br>Obstruction of justice<br>Perjury<br>Corruption|location = Watergate Complex, Washington D.C.}}{{Quote|Watergate tore us apart. It divided the nation like nothing else had.|[[wikipedia:Walter Cronkite|Walter Cronkite]]}}
Thee '''Watergate scandal''' was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Henry Kissinger]] from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation just 2 years after the scandal. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building.