The Medford Public Library is co-sponsoring an online event, “Watergate At 50: The Burglary That Changed the Nation,” led by Daniel Breen, a senior lecturer in Legal Studies at Brandeis University. It has been called “The Scandal that Never Goes Away” — and with good reason. Fifty years after the break-in at the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, we still do not know the full story of how the burglary came to happen. What we DO know is that the events that followed, culminating in President Nixon’s resignation in August of 1974, continue to hold lessons about the nature of power that seem to resonate ever more strongly as the years go by. Learn the story of how a local break-in became a national scandal, and how it profoundly changed the way Americans think about their political institutions.

Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Library. Register through the Medford library’s online calendar to receive the Zoom link.