Watergate break-in at the Watergate office complex

The break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex on June 17, 1972 prompted investigations that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974. The Watergate complex, along the Potomac River, includes hotel and office buildings and has remained part of Washington lore about political scandal and secrecy. The anonymous source nicknamed 'Deep Throat' was later identified in 2005 as FBI official W. Mark Felt; the episode is a major documented chapter in the city's modern political history.