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Tom McGregor | 11:06 Tue 01st Jul 2003 | Phrases & Sayings
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What do they mean when they say gate after a person's name in the press like 'Cheriegate' or 'Camillagate'?
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Didn't the ..gate phrase originate with Watergate and the Nixon scandal in the 1970s?
11:25 Tue 01st Jul 2003
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It was Watergate. In 1972 burglars, acting for the Republican Party, broke into the Democrat Party's national committee offices in the Watergate building. President Richard Nixon denied knowledge but was found to have participated in an attempt to cover it up. It was a gigantic political scandal that resulted in Nixon being forced out of office. It was known universally as the Watergate scandal, and subsequently 'gate' has tended to be added to other political scandals, particularly when there is a suspicion that a politician who is denying knowledge is being economical with the truth
12:06 Tue 01st Jul 2003
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Here Mr McGregor -was my answer helpful?
12:15 Tue 08th Jul 2003

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