Definitions for WATERGATE
ˈwɔ tərˌgeɪt, ˈwɒt ər-wa·ter·gate

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1. Watergate, Watergate scandalnoun

   a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974

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1. Watergatenoun

   An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC in 1972) that eventually led to resignation of US President Richard Nixon.

2. watergatenoun

   a gate opening onto water, or only or mainly accessible by water.

3. Etymology: From the name of the Watergate Hotel

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1. Watergate

   The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building. After the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Further investigations, along with revelations during subsequent trials of the burglars, led the House of Representatives to grant the U.S. House Judiciary Committee additional investigative authority—to probe into "certain matters within its jurisdiction", and led the Senate to create the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee, which held hearings. Witnesses testified that Nixon had approved plans to cover up his administration's involvement in the break-in, and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office. Throughout the investigation, Nixon's administration resisted its probes, and this led to a constitutional crisis. The Senate Watergate hearings were broadcast "gavel-to-gavel" nationwide by PBS and aroused public interest.Several major revelations and egregious presidential actions obstructing the investigation later in 1973 prompted the House to commence an impeachment process against Nixon. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Nixon had to release the Oval Office tapes to government investigators. The Nixon White House tapes revealed that he had conspired to cover up activities that took place after the break-in and had later tried to use federal officials to deflect attention from the investigation. The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. With his complicity in the cover-up made public, and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It is generally believed that, if he had not done so, he would have been impeached by the House and removed from office by a trial in the Senate. He is the only U.S. president to have resigned from office. On September 8, 1974, his successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned him. There were 69 people indicted and 48 people—many of them top Nixon administration officials—convicted. The metonym Watergate came to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration, including bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious; ordering investigations of activist groups and political figures; and using the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Internal Revenue Service as political weapons. The use of the suffix -gate after an identifying term has since become synonymous with public scandal, especially political scandal.

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1. watergate

   Watergate typically refers to a major political scandal that took place in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. It led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The scandal or event was named `Watergate' after the building where the break-in occurred. Term 'Watergate' has since come to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration. It also is used as a catch-all term for any scandal involving misuse of power, corruption, or a cover-up often tagged with a suffix "-gate".

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of WATERGATE in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of WATERGATE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of WATERGATE in a Sentence

1. David Gergen:

   This is wide in scope. It's almost every big decision that's coming through the Justice Department now has to be sent through the The White House and checked out with the president and then do the President's bidding. We've never -- we didn't see that in Watergate, this is why this is more sinister.

2. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

3. Fifth Avenue:

   Another crime is being committed—and that's the crime of the media, the media is absolutely not—they refuse to talk about it and yet it is 10 times bigger than Watergate.

4. Leon Jaworski:

   From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

5. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Watergate
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate
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