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Watergate Documents & White House Audio Tape | U.S. National Archives Vault

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On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington DC, while President Nixon was away in the Bahamas and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was in Cuba. Just three days later, on June 20, the first recorded conversa …