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The Watergate was a hotel in Washington DC, and also an office building, where the offices of the Democratic Party were located. The Republican party, led by president Richard Nixon, wanted to find out the strategies the Democrats were planning to use in the up-coming elections, and several Republican operatives broke into the Democratic Party's offices to do some spying. This became known as Watergate because of the location where it occurred.

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The scandal got its name from a break-in at the 1972 Democratic National Convention at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington, D.C.

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The scandal got its name from the Watergate Hotel in Washington. The trouble all began with a break-in at the Democratic Campaign headquarters located in the hotel.

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After the Watergate Hotel, in Washington, DC.

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