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Nixon:
Within days of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon disavowed participation in the scandal. That November, he won a landslide victory over Democratic candidate George McGovern, garnering 60 percent of the popular vote. Between the break-in and his resignation on August 8, 1974, Nixon's approval ratings steadily declined and reached a low of 24 percent by the time he left office. During this period Washington Post readers opened their newspapers to 140 Herblock drawings about Watergate. As early as June 20, 1972 Herblock castigated President Nixon for his role in the Watergate break-in, even as other cartoonists continued to support his presidential campaign. |