Watergate complex - site of the 1972 DNC break-in

The Watergate office complex on the Potomac River was the site of the June 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters that precipitated the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon's resignation. The break-in and subsequent investigations involved arrests, trials, and televised Senate hearings that led to criminal convictions and executive-branch inquiries. The complex's address is associated in historical records with the events that reshaped 20th-century American politics.