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Do you know the scandal that changed America? Take our Watergate quiz.

Watergate roiled American politics like no scandal before or since. It resulted in President Richard Nixon losing in disgrace the office he had coveted all his life. Some of the highest ranking members of the Nixon administration went to jail as a result of the Watergate break-in, including Attorney General John Mitchell and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. In the end 48 US officials and associates were convicted of Watergate-related crimes.

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10. What was on the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972 that was so dangerous to Nixon?

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Richard Nixon says goodbye to members of his staff as he boards a helicopter outside the White House on Aug. 9, 1974, after being forced out of the presidency by the Watergate scandal.

It proved that Nixon was involved in the coverup from virtually the beginning.

It documented Nixon paying hush money to the burglars.

It revealed Nixon saying nasty things about then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger.
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