This Day in History

[Carruthers]

1973 – The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

I was at an age when I wasn't paying attention to every little detail about Watergate, but I was still aware of the magnitude of the scandal and a number of events do stick in my mind.
I remember when Nixon made a TV broadcast with a stack of volumes on the desk which contained transcripts of the Oval Office tapes, obviously prior to the above development.
One commentator described him as looking like a 'shifty encyclopaedia salesman'.
I also recall his later statement when he said 'I'm not a crook'.
A sad state of affairs all round.