The Pros And Cons Of The Watergate Scandal

At the time of when the Watergate Scandal happened, the people of the United States were already suspicious of the government's activity. The Watergate Scandal only proved to accelerate the government's dropping reputation with the public. Watergate was a big deal so that it basically showed the American people that they could no longer trust anything the President had told them. Nixon's crimes weren't the highlight of the scandal, just that the government was fooling people in the first place. Though, when the republican president covers up the fact that some of his people broke into a building of the rival Democratic Party in an attempt to find information which would give them some sort of advantage in the next election, don't you think