[20][62][63] SGI officials also lobbied the USCFA. Euro Capital also said it would seek a hotel management company to continue to operate the Watergate Hotel as an independent hotel. [23], In his 2018 book The Watergate: Inside America’s Most Infamous Address, author Joseph Rodota gave three accounts of the origin of the name, based on sources inside the development team: Author and playwright Warren Adler, while working as a publicist for the developers, came up with the name; Nicolas Salgo, a New York financier who suggested the original site to Societa Generale Immobiliare, acquired the name from Marjory Hendricks, owner of the Water Gate Inn; and three local executives—Giuseppe Cecchi, an employee of Societa Generale Immobiliare, Nicolas Salgo and Royce Ward—came up with the name, inspired in part by the Water Gate Inn, and recommended it to executives in the Rome office for approval. Watergate officials said the new rooftop bar will seat 350, and other internal structural changes will add nearly 100 guest rooms. [77], Like the Watergate East, residents of this building have discussed buying the land beneath their building but do not need to do so until the land lease expires in 2070. [3], In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) occupied the entire sixth floor of the 11-story building at 2600 Virginia Avenue. [166], The cost of the renovation was pegged by Euro Capital at $125 million in November 2014. They kept up a steady stream of scoops demonstrating (1) the direct involvement of Nixon intimates in Watergate activities, (2) that the Watergate wiretapping and break-in had been financed through illegally laundered campaign contributions, and, in a blockbuster October 10 front-page article, (3) that “the Watergate bugging incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President Nixon’s re-election and directed by officials of the White House,” part of “a basic strategy of the Nixon re-election effort.”. Watergate South (700 New Hampshire Avenue NW), cooperative apartments. "Watergate Residents Happy". [56] By the end of April, DCZC had announced that it would delay its decision. Charles Colson (left) bending to speak with H.R. [3], Little redevelopment of the site has occurred in the 40 years since the Watergate was first built. [4][57] SGI agreed to shrink three of the planned buildings in the development to 13 stories (112 ft), with the remaining building rising to 130 feet (40 m). 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But in our opinion the result, which places a premium on public open space and garden-like surroundings, and which proposes a quality of housing that would rank with the finest in the city, would be a distinct asset. During the investigation, Nixon famously said on TV that, "I'm not a crook", a remark still parodied in comedy today. [94] On April 22, 1968, SGI agreed to turn its fifth building slightly to the southwest in order to open up the Watergate complex a little more and give the Kennedy Center a bit of open space. Grunley Construction will oversee all the renovations. [108][113] The Watergate's popularity among members of Congress and high-ranking executive branch political appointees has remained strong ever since the complex opened. [157][158] But many residents in other parts of the complex (some of whom owned the 25 percent of the hotel not sold to Blackstone)[112] argued that a hotel would better enhance the livability of the area and challenged the conversion in court. [34][35] The company purchased the 10 acres (40,000 m2) that belonged to the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in February 1960 for $10 million. [2] Each parking space in the underground garage cost $3,000. The Watergate project faced one final controversy. The 336-room hotel reopened in 2016, nine years after it closed. [2] The tenants took title to their building on April 8, 1966. The Watergate scandal was a scandal during and after the 1972 Presidential Election. "[4] Boris V. Timchenko, a noted D.C.-based landscape architect, supervised the design of the grounds, which included more than 150 planters, tiers of fountains designed to create sounds like a waterfall, landscaped rooftop terraces, swimming pools, and a 7-acre (28,000 m2) park. [35] Based on this proposal, the NCPC approved the Watergate plan. United States President and Republican Richard Nixon was running for election against Democrat George McGovern. [4][173] The burglars took jewelry and some personal items. "Watergate Blends Luxury, Convenience. It constructed its headquarters at its current location at 1818 H Street NW in Washington, D.C.[21], The name "Watergate" relates to numerous aspects of its physical and historical context. [165] The meeting space, which was quite small by industry standards, was expanded to 17,000 square feet (1,600 m2), and the ballroom enlarged slightly to 7,000 square feet (650 m2). [149] By 1970, problems at Watergate East led the press to dub the building the "Potomac Titanic,"[100] and its residents filed suit against the developer in 1971 to correct the structure's problems. [36] Luigi Moretti of the University of Rome was the chief architect, and Milton Fischer of the D.C.-based firm of Corning, Moore, Elmore and Fischer the associate architect. In the weeks prior to the jury verdict in the trial of the Chicago Seven (in Chicago, Illinois), political activists began planning and then advertising that a protest would occur at the home of United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell (who lived in the Watergate East). The foundation and basement of the first building, the 110-foot (34 m) Watergate East, were completed by September 1964, and the metal and concrete superstructure rose in October. [20] At the time, it was also the largest renewal effort in the District of Columbia undertaken solely with private funds. Black Friday Sale! Additional crimes were also uncovered. So many members of the Nixon administration settled there that the Washington, D.C., press commented on it[144] and nicknamed it the "Republican Bastille". During the 1990s, it was subdivided and its component buildings and parts of buildings were sold to various owners. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. [17][36][38] The Watergate's curved structures were designed to emulate two nearby elements. [65][68] Moretti later admitted he probably would have lowered the height of the buildings anyway,[38] and thought that the approval process had gone relatively smoothly. Architect Bahram Kamali of BBGM said the renovation will completely replace the electrical, HVAC, mechanical, and plumbing (fresh water and sewage) systems. [91] The Kennedy Center then argued that the DCZC had not properly considered its objections, and should delay its approval pending further hearings. [86] The general counsel for the Kennedy Center told the USCFA that the Watergate Town (the development had dropped the "e") was planning a 170-foot (52 m) building that would harm the aesthetics of the Kennedy Center and intrude on its park-like surroundings. [42] For a few years in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade), the Watergate Hotel was operated by the Swissôtel hotel group. [77] Another lawsuit, filed in February 1970, sought exclusive access to the underground parking garage the cooperative claimed as its own, and demanded that the developer stop selling spaces in the residents' parking area. 2005 wurde bekannt, dass der damalige stellvertretende FBI-Direktor M. Felt der Presse die entscheidenden Informationen geliefert hatte. [2], Problems with the building's construction became apparent shortly after its occupancy. [107] Although the Watergate was considered one of the most glamorous residences in the city, as early as 1970 residents and businesses complained of substandard construction, including a leaking roof and poor plumbing and wiring. Nach der Veröffentlichung der Pentagon-Papiere engagierte sich Ellsberg weiterhin politisch. Ganz einfach erklärt: Watergate. [86] But in June 1965, as excavation and clearing began for the Kennedy Center, its advocates began agitating to lower the planned height of the final Watergate building. [150] As expected, the verdict was handed down on February 18, 1970 (all the defendants were found not guilty of conspiracy but five were found guilty of incitement to riot[151]). Aufgewachsen ist er mit seiner älteren Schwester Sonia als Sohn einer gutbürgerlichen Familie. [28][175] The building saw extensive renovations in 1997. Premium Membership is now 50% off! [22] Land once owned by the canal company was part of the 10-acre (4.0 ha) site purchased in 1960 by the project's developer, Rome-based Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI). Soon after, Woodward and Bernstein and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators identified two coconspirators in the burglary: E. Howard Hunt, Jr., a former high-ranking CIA officer only recently appointed to the staff of the White House, and G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent working as a counsel for CREEP. The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. [148], The Watergate East apartment building is probably the second-best known of the five buildings in the development. [4][41] Later in April, the Democratic National Committee leased office space in the building's retail office portion. [92] The District's legal counsel disagreed, giving the DCZC the go-ahead to reaffirm (or not) its approval ruling,[92] which the Zoning Commission did on November 30, 1967. [26], In 2004, Washington Post writer John Kelly argued that the name was most directly linked to the "Water Steps" or "Water Gate," a set of ceremonial stairs west of the Lincoln Memorial that led down to the Potomac. [83] Apartments in the unfinished building, priced from $30,000 to $140,000, began selling in October 1967, an indication of how popular the complex was with District residents. Watergate Office Building (2600 Virginia Ave NW), the office building where the Watergate burglaryhappened. [4][17][57] SGI also agreed to add more open space by reducing the size of the Watergate to 1.73 million square feet (161,000 m2) from 1.911 million square feet (177,500 m2) and by reorienting or re-siting some of the buildings. [81] On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for President Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign bugged the phones of and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. Watergate scandal, interlocking political scandals of the administration of U.S. Pres. [4][58][65][66][67][68] The final plan broke one building into two, creating five rather than four construction projects. [17], Britain's National Coal Board Pension Fund sold the Watergate Office Building to John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance in the early 1990s. [44], Initially, the project was to cost $75 million and consist of six 16-story buildings comprising 1,400 apartment units, a 350-room hotel, office space, shops, 19 luxury "villas" (townhouses), and three-level underground parking for 1,250 vehicles. [4] In October 1972, several high-end fashion boutiques, jewelers, and a restaurant opened in a retail space named "Les Champs. Watergate 600 (600 New Hampshire Ave NW), office building. Watergate Office Building (2600 Virginia Ave NW), the office building where the, This page was last edited on 14 August 2020, at 23:01. On August 9, 1974, facing likely impeachment for his role in covering up the scandal, Nixon became the only U.S. president to resign. Der Vater Pedro war Ingenieur, seine Mutter Lydia Hausfrau. The Watergate apartment building where the crime took place. [4][a] The second was the nearby Kennedy Center, then in the planning stage and whose original design was supposed to be curvilinear. [56], By the time the DCZC met to consider approval in mid-April 1962, the cost of the project had been scaled back to $50 million. [4] Three key staff were opposed to the project on height grounds: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Special Assistant to the President; August Heckscher III, Special Consultant on the Arts; and William Walton, a Kennedy family confidante. [4][20][53], Because the District of Columbia is the seat of the United States government, proposals for buildings in the city (particularly those in the downtown area, near federal buildings and monuments) must pass through an extensive, complex, and time-consuming approval process. ", U.S. National Register of Historic Places, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, President Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign. [27][28][29] The steps had been originally planned as a ceremonial gateway to the city and an official reception area for dignitaries arriving in Washington, D.C., via water taxi from Virginia, though they never served this function. [20] Various buildings were sold again in the early 2000s (decade). The first stage considered the proposed project as a whole as well as the first proposed building. The renovation now featured two new restaurants, upgraded ballrooms, and a new spa and fitness area. Articles using NRISref without a reference number, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with dead external links from January 2018, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with and applied by journalists to controversial topics and scandals in the United States[12][13][14][15] and elsewhere, in places that do not have English as the main language. Watergate Hotel (2650 Virginia Avenue NW). Strict lease agreements, however, have kept the apartment buildings in residents' hands: In the Watergate South, for example, owners cannot rent their unit until a full year has passed, and no lease may last more than two years. Nixon was reelected in a historic landslide—winning all but Massachusetts and the District of Columbia—and embarked on what looked to be a dynamic second term. Among the improvements it wished to make were the addition of six outdoor "summer gardens" where liquor may be served. [42] Among the many notable past occupants are the following: Alfred S. Bloomingdale,[108][109] Anna Chennault,[110][111] Bob and Elizabeth Dole (Watergate South),[108][112][113] Plácido Domingo,[108][114][115][116] Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Watergate South),[108][112] Alan Greenspan,[4][108][117][118] Monica Lewinsky (she stayed briefly at her mother's apartment in the complex),[108][119][120] Senator Russell Long,[2][121][122][123] Clare Boothe Luce (after 1983),[124][125][126] Robert McNamara,[4][108] John and Martha Mitchell,[108][113][121][127][128] Paul O'Neill,[129][130] Condoleezza Rice,[108][131][132] Mstislav Rostropovich,[108][133][134] Maurice Stans,[113][116] Ben Stein,[135][136][137] Herbert Stein,[138][139] John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor (during their marriage),[108][140][dead link] Caspar Weinberger,[141][142] Charles Z. Wick,[108][109][143] and Rose Mary Woods. [91] The DCZC disagreed, and re-asserted its jurisdiction. Watergate West (2700 Virginia Avenue NW), cooperative apartments. [82], Construction on the fourth building in the complex, the Watergate West apartments, began in July 1967. [157][158] The bank began marketing the property for sale, and Monument Realty submitted a bid in October 2009 to buy the hotel back. [98][99], The fifth building was completed in January 1971. Additional revisions in the design plan pushed the cost back up to $65 million, even though only 17 villas were now planned. Die Offenlegung dieser Missbräuche verstärkte in den USA massiv eine durch den Vietnamkrieg ausgelöste gesellschaftliche Vertrauenskrise gegenüber den Politikern in … [4][80] The 12-story hotel initially included 213 rooms, while the 12-story office building, attached to the hotel by a colonnade, had 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of office space. ", "Formal Opening Wednesday For Watergate East. An operating unit is an autonomous subsidiary of a corporation which owns assets, incurs liability, and has its own independent management. Wortwurzel zerlegt den Wortkorpus von "WATERGATE" in einzelne Bestandteile und durchsucht das Referenz-Wörterbuch nach Übereinstimmungen. [69] But the group's attempt to stop construction failed, and the project went forward. [64], SGI's chief architect, Gábor Ács, and Watergate chief architect Luigi Moretti flew to New York City on May 17 and defended the complex's design in a three-hour meeting with USCFA members. The barge concerts ended in 1965 when jet airliner service began at National Airport and the noise impaired the venue's viability. U.S. Pres. Covering a total of 10 acres (4 ha) adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the buildings include: Built between 1963 and 1971, the Watergate was considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, popular with members of Congress and political appointees of the executive branch. The plan would require the approval of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which voted to protest the liquor licenses unless the company reached an agreement with all the tenant associations in the Watergate cooperative. Omissions? [38] Because of the curves in the structure, the Watergate complex was one of the first major construction projects in the United States in which computers played a significant role in the design work. [77] SGI said the problems were similar to those with any new building, and that it had already spent $300,000 on repairs. [159][160] The hotel closed on August 1, 2007, for a $170 million 18-month renovation, during which the hotel rooms were intended to be roughly doubled in size to 650 square feet (60 m2). [28][34] Although the Kennedy Center later adopted a rectangular shape for cost reasons, the Watergate complex's design did not change. [2][4] The design for the entire complex also envisioned an electronic security system so extensive that the press claimed "intruders will have difficulty getting onto the grounds undetected. The hotel was auctioned off on July 21, 2009 (with the minimum bid beginning at $25 million), but there were no buyers and Deutsche Postbank, which held the $40 million mortgage on the property, took over ownership. [105][106], The Watergate II project was eventually abandoned in favor of a much larger complex near Landmark Mall in Alexandria (a site nowhere near water). [34][35][36][37] The project was announced on October 21, 1960. It was the site for open-air concerts and the audience could sit on the stairs. A noted 2006 guidebook to the city's architecture concluded that the Watergate brought a "welcome fluidity" to the city's boxy look. [153] Although a second protest was expected the following day, it never emerged and police spent the day drinking coffee and eating cookies and pastries baked at the Watergate East's pastry shop. Four of them formerly had been active in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities against Fidel Castro in Cuba. [2][4] The complex has been sold several times since the 1980s. [162], Euro Capital announced its year-long, $85 million renovation of the hotel in January 2013. [112][156] The hotel subsequently underwent a renovation in 2000. Among these were a 24-hour receptionist, room service provided by the Watergate Hotel, health club, restaurants, shopping mall, medical and dental offices, grocery, pharmacy, post office, and liquor store. [97] On August 8, 1968, SGI and the Kennedy Center reached a resolution, agreeing that only 25 percent of the fifth building's 1.7 million square feet (160,000 m2) would be used as office space and that the remaining space would become apartment units. [3][157][175] BentleyForbes put the office tower up for sale on March 12, 2009. [161] Euro Capital Properties purchased the hotel in May 2010 for $45 million, with plans to rehabilitate it over the next two years. [5] In 1997, JBG Cos. and Buvermo Properties sold the office building to the Blackstone Group's Trizec Properties division. The remains of the gravity dam across Rock Creek, as well as Waste Weir #1 are at this site. [27] Instead, beginning in 1935, a floating performance stage on the Potomac River was anchored to the base of the steps. [6] The new owner renovated the building again, a project which included expanding its lobby and restaurant space. Einfach erklärt Viele Dinge scheinen uns im Alltag selbstverständlich: Die Abfälle werden regelmäßig von zuhause abgeholt, das saubere Wasser kommt immer aus dem Hahn und wenn der Schalter betätigt wird, dann geht das Licht an. Trizec did not pay the hotel's property taxes for 2008 (which amounted to $250,000), and estimated that it would take $100 million to make the hotel habitable due to the stalled 2007 renovation. [4][41] Landscape features such as planters would also be used to create privacy barriers between apartments. It became the most sought-after living location in the city when it opened in 1966. [76] In November, a Safeway supermarket, a Peoples Drug (now known as CVS pharmacy), beauty salon, barber shop, bank, bakery, liquor store, florist, dry cleaner, post office, upscale shops, and high-end restaurant took up residency in the retail space on the ground floor. [150][153] Several hundred police, bused in to prevent the demonstration, engaged in street fighting with protestors, forced them to retreat, and eventually launched several tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd. TH. 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[20][69] By mid-November 1962, more than 2,000 protest letters had been sent to Congress and another 1,500 to the White House. [55] SGI officials, however, contended that architects are required by law to measure from the highest point on the property on which they are to build; using this measurement, the building met the May 1962 agreement stipulations.

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