Nixon Resigns: Watergate Ends a Presidency
Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the presidency on national television, the first and only American president to do so. Facing near-certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal, his departure ended a two-year political crisis that had consumed the nation and permanently altered Americans' relationship with their government.
August 8, 1974
52 years ago
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