On this date in history: A Washington scandal takes over the TV

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5. that's hard to believe

and sort of a meaningless statistic. "More than 85% of Americans were watching at least some of the hearings".

I was 11, it was summer vacation in about three weeks. I don't believe I watched ANY of the hearings, except perhaps the clips featured on the nightly news or 60 minutes. I may have been watching the nightly news or 60 minutes.

Also feel that this line is erroneous. "But when representatives of President Nixon's re-election campaign were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters,..."

Because those five men were caught almost a year earlier.

"June 17, 1972: Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex."

http://watergate.info/chronology/brief-timeline-of-events

That timeline does not mention the resignation of Spiro Agnew. Because I do remember watching on TV the nomination of Gerald Ford.

Agnew resigned 10 Oct 1973, and Ford was appointed on 12 October.