Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, famously declared "I am not a crook" during a press conference on November 17, 1973. The statement was in response to allegations of his involvement in the Watergate scandal, a political scandal that involved the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of their involvement in the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon eventually resigned from office on August 8, 1974, becoming the only U.S. president to resign from office.