The luxurious Watergate complex in Washington, shown in 1973, was the home of the offices of the Democratic National Committee, where a late-night break-in led to the downfall of a president. (Associated Press)
President Nixon at a White House news conference in 1973. (Associated Press)
Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s secretary, is shown at her White House desk in 1973 demonstrating the “Rose Mary Stretch,” which it was theorized could have been responsible for the unintentional erasure of part of the Watergate tapes. (Associated Press)
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward, right, and Carl Bernstein, pictured in 1973, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Watergate scandal. (Associated Press)
President Nixon gestures toward transcripts of White House tapes during an April 29, 1974, address in which he announced that he would turn over the transcripts to House impeachment investigators. (Associated Press )
The House Judiciary Committee meets to consider the possible impeachment of President Nixon on July 25, 1974. Rep. Peter Rodino (D-N.J.) was the committee’s chairman. (Associated Press)
Shortly after giving up power, President Nixon salutes his staff before boarding a helicopter and leaving the White House on Aug. 9, 1974. (Bob Daugherty / Associated Press)
A portrait of former President Richard M. Nixon is replaced by that of his successor, Gerald R. Ford, at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, West Germany, on Aug. 9, 1974, the day Nixon left office. (Schlagmann / Associated Press)
