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President Nixon Image Name: President Nixon Description: An image of Richard Nixon, thirty-seventh President of the USA, on a visit to Ireland in 1970. He stands with Taoiseach Jack Lynch. A crowd stand in front of them. Copyright: RTÉ Archives
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Tá sé caoga bliain inniu ó briseadh isteach sa Watergate Building i Washington den chéad uair.  Dhá bhliain dar gcionn, d’éirigh Richard Nixon as uachtaránacht Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá mar gheall ar an scannal.  Sa mhír staire ar an gclár inniu, tabharfaí scannal Watergate chun cuimhne agus an tionchar a bhí aige ar pholaitíocht Mheiriceá.  Is í Máirín Ní Ghadhra a chuirfidh an clár i láthair.

It was fifty years ago today that the Watergate Building in Washington was broken into for the first time.  Two years later, Richard Nixon resigned as American President as a result of the scandal.  Today, in the regular history feature on the show, we revisit the Watergate scandal, and its implications for American politics.  Máirín Ní Ghadhra presents.