Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign ActivitiesLed by Sam Ervin, the Senate Watergate Committee held televised hearings that exposed cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other illegal and improper activities of the Nixon White House and re-election campaign. The Final Report of the Committee is accompanied by 26 volumes of hearings, two appendices and an index. All are present here except Volume 26 and the Index.
"Five Held in Plot to Bug Democratic Offices Here," said the headline at the bottom of page one in the Washington Post on Sunday, June 18, 1972. The story reported that a team of burglars had been arrested inside the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office complex in Washington. So began the chain of events that would convulse Washington for two years, lead to the first resignation of a U.S. president and change American politics forever. The story intrigued two young reporters on The Post's staff, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward who were called in to work on the story. As Woodward's notes show, he learned from police sources that the men came from Miami, wore surgical gloves and carried thousands of dollars in cash. It was, said one source, "a professional type operation."
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