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Curated Video

The Watergate Scandal: Nixon's Downfall and Resignation

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video provides a detailed account of the Watergate scandal, highlighting how President Richard Nixon became the first American president to resign from office in 1974 due to his involvement in the cover-up of the break-in at the...
Instructional Video2:15
Curated Video

Congressional Investigations

9th - Higher Ed
Congressional Investigations have uncovered some serious wrongdoing over the past 200 years. But where does Congress get the power to conduct investigations and how has it used that power throughout U.S. history?
Instructional Video17:35
Mr. Beat

What Was Watergate?

6th - 12th
Mr. Beat explains the Watergate scandal.
Instructional Video6:39
Hip Hughes History

The 1976 Election Explained

6th - 12th
You don't have to be a dummy to watch the essentials of the election of 1976. Perfect for AP Government students sweating out before an exam, lost freshman in an intro to poly-sci class or just weird youtube people who watch random videos.
Instructional Video4:32
Professor Dave Explains

Gerald Ford: Taking Tumbles (1974 – 1977)

9th - Higher Ed
Gerald Ford ascended to the presidency upon the resignation of Richard Nixon. Since he had been selected to replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon's Vice President the year prior, Ford is the only person to ever have served as both Vice President...
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Curated Video

Don Newman on Watergate and Donald Trump (The Investigators with Diana Swain)

9th - Higher Ed
45 years later, Don Newman reflects on the enduring relevance of the Watergate scandal, and whether comparisons to the Trump administration are fair. Watch The Investigators Saturdays at 9:30 pm ET and Sundays at 5:30 pm ET on CBC News...
Instructional Video11:38
Curated Video

How the Washington Post lost 10% of its subscribers in 5 days | About That

9th - Higher Ed
Less than two weeks before the U.S. election, the Washington Post's owner Jeff Bezos said the paper would no longer endorse a presidential candidate, resulting in a loss of hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Andrew Chang breaks down...
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Washington Post's Ben Bradlee

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee receives the Presidential Medal of Honor from U.S. President Barack Obama. Bradlee died at age 93 on October 22, 2014.
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AMC Gremlin parked across from Capitol Bldg.

Pre-K - Higher Ed
WS 1973 white AMC Gremlin parked across the street from the U.S. Capitol Building. (The Garfield Monument is in the background.); ZI to CU of 'Clean Air Economy Run' logo on Gremlin's door. AMC Gremlin parked across from Capitol Bldg....
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AMC Gremlin parked near front of U.S. Capitol Bldg

Pre-K - Higher Ed
MS of 1973 AMC Gremlin (participating in the Clean Air Economy Run) parked at the curb of a traffic circle across from the United States Capitol Building; Garfield Monument is in the background AMC Gremlin parked near front of U.S....
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AMC Gremlin parks in front of U.S. Capitol Bldg.

Pre-K - Higher Ed
MS of white 1973 AMC Gremlin (participating in a fuel economy competition) driving around a traffic circle; ZO to WS as Gremlin pulls up to the curb in front of The United States Capitol Building AMC Gremlin parks in front of U.S....
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 3 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 3 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges / talks about the resignation of White House staff members, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Nixon's First Watergate Speech...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 2 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 2 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges and how they have been cooperating with the FBI investigation and that he 'was determined that we should get to the bottom of the matter, and that the truth should be...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 5 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 5 of 9 on April 30, 1973 in Washington, DC (Footage by Getty Images)
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 8 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 8 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges and saying, 'The lesson is clear: America, in its political campaigns, must not again fall into the trap of letting the end, however great that end is, justify the...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 4 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 4 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges / Nixon explains The Counsel to the President, John Dean, has resigned and names Elliot Richardson as the new Attorney General / Continues saying, 'That is why I...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 1 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Beginning of Nixon's speech defending his office against Watergate charges, partial text includes, 'In recent months, members of my Administration and officials of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President - including some of my...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 9 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 9 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges and ends speech by saying, 'I looked at my own calendar this morning up at Camp David as I was working on this speech. It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 6 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 6 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges and changes topic to upcoming concerns in 1973 such as Soviet-American relations, Southeast Asia and The Middle East. Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 6 of 9 on...
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Nixon's First Watergate Speech - Part 7 of 9

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Part 7 of Nixon speech defending his office against Watergate charges and changes focus to the future and his goals for a 2nd term in office and that 'We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real,...
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Curated Video

Hotel Guests Can Experience Watergate 50 Years Later

Higher Ed
Guests can experience the space where E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy spied on President Richard Nixon’s political opponents in 1972.
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AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Expert: Impeachment possible if president personally involved

9th - Higher Ed
The firing of FBI Director James Comey by Donald Trump has drawn comparisons to former President Richard Nixon's dismissal of the independent Watergate investigator Archibald Cox in 1973
News Clip2:56
AFP News Agency

CLEAN : Greece: hundreds rally in Athens in protest of the spying scandal that shakes the country

9th - Higher Ed
Several hundred demonstrators gather in front of the Greek parliament in protest to the spying scandal that is shaking the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, following revelations that the leader of the Greek Socialist...
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Sky News

Watergate hotel Stock footage

Higher Ed
CLEAN: Interior shots of quote in a picture frame hung on a wall in the scandal room at the water gate hotel saying "When the president does it, that means its not illegal. Richard M. Nixon" Shots of a Watergate sign and Exterior shots...