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The Watergate Scandal<\/a>
\nStudents watch a one-hour video documentary to assess the role played in Nixon’s downfall by ten key individuals involved in the Watergate Scandal.<\/p>\n

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The Watergate Scandal Students watch a one-hour video documentary to assess the role played in Nixon’s downfall by ten key individuals involved in the Watergate Scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[403,670,972,1149,1148],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-ib-history","tag-fall","tag-nixon","tag-richard","tag-scandal","tag-watergate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3967,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/nixons-foreign-policy-the-second-administration\/","url_meta":{"origin":4468,"position":0},"title":"Nixon’s foreign policy: the second administration","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"March 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Nixon's second administration (1972-1974) \"Nixon's second administration was mired in the Watergate Scandal, but no less controversial is is handling of foreign affairs in this period. 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