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HISTORY OF CONGRESS
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Investigating the Watergate Scandal

Transcript of meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and H.R. Haldeman on April 26, 1973

Transcript of meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and H.R. Haldeman on April 26, 1973

 
Transcript of meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and H.R. Haldeman on April 26, 1973

Transcript of meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and H.R. Haldeman on April 26, 1973

Transcripts of President Nixon’s taped Oval Office conversations with Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and others raised questions of the President’s involvement in the Watergate break-in, the attempted cover-up, and other abuses of executive power. Facing impeachment, President Nixon resigned from office in August 1974—the first president to ever do so.

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…I don’t think it should ever get out that we taped this office, Bob.

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