Watergate
People Involved
People Involved
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
The sitting President of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. Nixon was a Republican, and his presidency was focused mostly on making peace with China and limiting Russian nuclear armaments until the Watergate Scandal.
CREEP(CRP)
CREEP(CRP)
CREEP stands for the Committee to Re-elect the President. They paid money to criminals to break into the Watergate complex and place a bug inside.
John Dean
John Dean
John Dean served as White House Counsel to Richard Nixon before he was fired in 1973. He later plead guilty to obstruction of justice and testified before Congress about Nixon's involvement in the cover up of Watergate.