Lessons From Watergate #225 By Hank Silverberg We are coming up on a major historical anniversary next week. It was 50 years ago, on June 17, 1972, when a group of burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. It started what was then the biggest criminal/political scandal (Watergate Hotel, Courtesy Library of Congress) in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon two years later--the result of a massive attempt to cover it all up and subsequent impeachment hearings. It has been described as a major constitutional test in our history, almost to the same degree as the Civil War. Nixon and his minions wanted to hold onto power by mani...