Approach to Reagan Airport
Edited by David Barth, 30 January 2012.
Some information is courtesy of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The photos below were taken during the approach to Reagan National Airport in October 2010 on a clear, autumn day. The winds were such that the approach was down the Potomac River.
 |
Approach to Reagan National
Airport over the Potomac River |
 |
| Interesting building on the Potomac River |
 |
| Government buildings |
 |
| Capitol, upper right |
 |
| Jefferson Memorial |
 |
| Washington Monument |
 |
| Washington Monument |
 |
| Washington Monument |
 |
| Watergate Hotel |
The Watergate burglaries, which took place on May 28 and June 17, 1972, were the focus of the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon. Five men who were apprehended inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building during the second burglary implicated themselves on other counts and charges by voluntarily telling investigators about having committed a "first break-in."
Physical evidence that might have corroborated the testimony was destroyed by a number of people involved in and peripheral to the first burglary, including G. Gordon Liddy, Jeb Magruder, John Dean, and the acting head of the FBI at the time, L. Patrick Gray, who resigned after his admission of destruction of evidence that had been taken from the safe of E. Howard Hunt.