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Watergate (disambiguation)

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Watergate is the Watergate scandal, a 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel by members of President Richard Nixon's administration and the resulting cover-up.

Watergate may also refer to:

Gates

  • Watergate (architecture), a gate opening onto water, or only or mainly accessible by water
    • Traitors' Gate, an entrance to the Tower of London, England
    • York Watergate or Buckingham Watergate, names for the York House Watergate, London, England

Places

United States

  • Watergate, Florida
  • Watergate complex, an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in Washington, D.C. near a watergate onto the Potomac River

United Kingdom

  • Watergate, a former area of Oxford known for its College of the Franciscans; See Haymo of Faversham
  • Watergate, Chester, Cheshire
  • Watergate, Cornwall
  • Watergate Bay, Cornwall
  • Watergate Beach, Cornwall
  • Watergate Halt railway station, a defunct station in Devon
  • Watergate Theatre, London, a former theatre in London, England

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Watergate (album), by American hip hop group Thirsty Fish
  • Watergate (documentary series), a 1994 Emmy award-winning documentary by Mick Gold
  • "Watergate" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from Season 4
  • Watergate, a 2012 novel by Thomas Mallon
  • Watergate, an alias used by DJ Quicksilver for some of his EP's

Other uses

  • Watergate salad, a dish made with pistachio pudding and whipped cream
  • Watergate tapes, also known as the Nixon tapes, a collection of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and various White House staff members

See also

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