1972. WATERGATE

Whatever it takes

An episode from the series HISTORY GREATEST LIES

Synopsis

1972. Richard Nixon spares no effort to ensure his re-election, spying on his opponents from the Democratic party, wiretapping, stealing documents, and using slush funds. A team of 50 people is recruited from within the White House to bring down the opposite camp and rig the election.

The truth slowly comes to light, right up to Nixon’s resignation in August 1974.

The greatest American lie of the twentieth century involves corruption at the highest level of the leading world power, a lie that forced an American president to resign.