The Watergate Hearings

It is 40 years since the beginning of a Senate investigation which would eventually lead to Richard Nixon standing down as President of the USA.

It is 40 years since the beginning of a Senate investigation which would eventually lead to Richard Nixon standing down as President of the USA. Senator Howard Baker was on the Watergate committee.

(Photo: Senator Howard Baker (left), Senator Sam Irvin, Sam Dash, Senator Herman Talmadge. Credit: Gene Forte/Getty Images.)