Watergate complex, site of the 1972 break-in that led to Nixon's resignation

The Watergate office-residential complex was the location of the June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters that led to investigations implicating President Richard Nixon's administration. The burglary and subsequent cover-up triggered congressional inquiries, criminal prosecutions, and ultimately Nixon's resignation in August 1974; those events are historically documented as the Watergate scandal. The complex remains identified with that series of events in Washington, D.C. history.