Watergate

On the 9th August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned from the Presidency of the United States, the only President ever to have done so. Had he not, he faced impeachment. It was the climax of a series of events - political "dirty tricks", bugging, burglaries - which the White House not only sponsored but tried, vainly, to cover up, events known collectively as "Watergate". This is a history of Watergate, told by Fred Emery, now a presenter for Panorama, who was Washington Bureau Chief of "The Times" during the whole period.