Watergate (disambiguation)

Watergate (disambiguation)

A watergate is a gate opening onto water, or only or mainly accessible by water. However the word can (and very often, in the news and modern history, does) refer to:

*Watergate complex, an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in northwest Washington, D.C. near a watergate onto the Potomac river
*Watergate scandal, a 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel by members of President Richard Nixon's administration and the resulting cover-up
**Watergate tapes, also known as the Nixon tapes, a collection of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and various White House staff members
**Watergate burglaries, which took place between May and June 1972, resulting in the Watergate scandal
**See also, List of scandals with "-gate" suffix
*"Watergate" (Stargate SG-1), an episode from Season 4
*Watergate Beach, a mile stretch of sand situated in Cornwall near Newquay
*Traitor's Gate, an entrance to the Tower of London accessible by boat
*Watergate (club), an electronic music club in Berlin
*"WaTergaTe", a song by industrial/electro-pop band ohGr
*Watergate salad, a dish made with pistachio pudding and whipped cream
*Watergate Halt railway station, defunct rural Devonian railway station
*Watergate, Chester


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