What did the name “watergate” refer to?

The term "Watergate" referred to the Watergate Scandal the Nixon administration carried out.

Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the U.S. in the 1970's following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. in 1972 and president Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

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