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President Nixon And The Watergate Scandal

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When people think of the Watergate Scandal, they automatically think about Nixon and his biggest scandal. The Watergate Scandal plus 30 video helped us understand the events that took place more clearly and the interviews that took place put the whole thing into perspective. Nixon was a president during the late 60’s early 70’s. He was a president who had good private morality, but not so much public morality. This flaw made him quite paranoid and Nixon felt he needed information to be on top. Nixon also made great world changing decisions without the advice or interference of Congress. When Nixon went the extremes of using government to wiretap without the congress’s or court’s approval Congress was not happy. This was the beginning of bad

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