40 years on, Watergate crime scene is forgotten

Sunday, June 17, 2012

WASHINGTON -- When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings on the western edge of the nation's capital. Then, 40 years ago today, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee there.

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