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The Nixon Years The basement door of the
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The Nixon Years The basement door of the
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that this nondescript door in a basement garage of the Watergate Hotel
and Office complex would be the critical element that started the wheels
in motion that would ultimately bring down the President of the United
States. The "Watergate burglars" had taped the door open as they
went about their illegitimate business in the headquarters of the Democratic
National Committee on the sixth floor. Frank Wills, a security guard
on his rounds for General Security Services, Inc., removed the tape, only
to find later that the door had been retaped. At 1:52 am on the morning
of Saturday, June 17, 1972, he sounded the alarm that resulted in
the apprehension of the five burglars.
This photograph, taken after the Watergate hearings, gained eerie plausibility when a custodian unexpectedly opened the door as I was shooting. |
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