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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Matt Roper

Watergate scandal: How a single piece of tape brought down the US President

It was a relatively simple job, as burglaries go. And if everything had gone to plan, no-one would ever have known.

But instead, June 17, 1972 ended up changing history.

The botched break-in at the Watergate, a residential and office complex in Washington DC, 50 years ago today, would change American politics forever.

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