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=//**The Watergate Scandal took place on June 17, 1974 at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C. when five men tried to steal and take documents to help out Nixon with his reelection. A security guard named Frank Willis caught these men trying to take the documents from the complex. These men were known as the "White House Plumbers".**//= =//**This event took place because Nixon wanted to get re-elected and he hired men to go in and help him get reelected and did it by trying to steal documents that would help him get re-elected. Nixon tried to cover up the scandal with tapes he recorded and then tried to say he didn't have anything to do with it. After this scandal Nixon resigned being president and became the first president to do it.This caused the US citizens to lose trust in the government.**//= =//This event is significant to US history because it// //goes out to show that even the government could be corrupt sometimes.//= ==
 * Watergate Scandal**

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