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Timeline of Events

1920

6.11.1920

During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".

1973

11.17.1973

Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".

1985

3.16.1985

Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.