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In what year did police arrest five men for breaking into the Democratic Party's national headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.?
2.
What member of the Committee for the Re-election of the President was one of the five Watergate burglers?
3.
Who was the chief witness against President Richard Nixon at the Senate hearings on Watergate?
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Who carried out Richard Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor handling the Watergate case?
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Who resigned from office on Oct. 10, 1973?
6.
In 1975, who became the only former attorney general ever convicted of a felony?
