Watergate Affair
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
WATERGATE AFFAIR in U.S. history, series of scandals involving the administration of President...more specifically, the burglarizing of the Democratic party national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate Break-in On June 17, 1972, police apprehended five men attempting to break into and wiretap...