In 2005, more than three decades after the Watergate scandal shook the foundations of the White House and led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, the secret source behind the exposé known only as “Deep Throat” finally revealed his identity.
Meanwhile, back in 1962, Adolf Eichmann, a key architect of Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust, was executed in Israel following his conviction for crimes against humanity.
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