On July 23, 1973, then US president Richard Nixon refused to turn over presidential tape recordings in an investigation into one of the biggest political scandals in US history - Watergate.
On June 17, 1972, Watergate erupted as one of the most spectacular political scandals in US history which two years later led to the resignation of the president. Here is a timeline of how the events unfolded.
Politics and the media are more partisan, but don’t be so sure they would have protected their party’s president
The 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests is approaching: The first break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters was on May 28, 1972, but the botched return on June 17 produced arrests and eventually brought Richard Nixon’s presidency to a premature end on August 8, 1974.