New evidence suggests he did and that Lyndon B. Johnson also stole gold from the same base in a separate criminal operation. On November 17, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal that led to his resignation, President Richard Nixon.
The fall of socialist regimes and the restoration of capitalism in many countries in the 1990s provoked the view that the current stage of history is also its last. The adherents of the theory that liberal democracy is the pinnacle of political evolution are correct: individual freedom and self-rule are the prerogatives of all of humanity. But democracy has never been as imperiled as it is today by the tyrants who rule in its name. Despite the economic and social crises that afflict not only the poorest countries of the world but also the wealthiest, no alternative seems to be available, the only prospect being more of the same.
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Frank became a security guard at the spiffy Watergate Office Building near the Potomac River. It was a hot location in the early 1970s; so choice the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor.