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There was considerable concern that the democrat party was working closely with the domestic terrorist organization, Weather Underground, aka Weathermen. The break in was to find out how involved they were with them.

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There was never an evidence that Nixon ordered the break-in or knew about it at the time it happened. The people who ordered it were spying on his competition during the presidential campaign. They were looking for any information about opposing party that might give themselves some advantage in the election campaign.

Nixon's downfall was the cover-up after the break-in occurred.

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The Democratic headquarters were located in the Watergate Hotel. The people who broke in were looking for privileged information that would be helpful to the Republicans in the campaign.

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The Watergate complex was the Democratic Party Headquarters. The burglars were looking for evidence that the Cuban government was funding the Democratic Party.

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Beacause they wanted to hear what was going on in the watergate.

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