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Watergate Data Destruction

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1972

Robert "Bob" Woodward20 September 1972

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Woodward and Bernstein report that Nixon campaign officials directed destruction of financial and intelligence records after the Watergate break-in.

Names involved

Robert "Bob" Woodward

Provenance

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