Washington‚ D.C. As a result of a "third-rate burglary" on June 17 of that year‚ it came to be associated with the greatest political scandal of that century and would change the lives of the many people involved — especially President Richard M. Nixon. While doing his rounds at the Watergate Hotel in the early morning of June 17‚ 1972‚ security guard Frank Wills found a door‚ located between the basement stairwell and the parking garage‚ that was being prevented from latching by a piece of
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The Watergate Scandal was a scandal made by President Nixon for the fact that he wanted to get information about the presidential election and it ended up making Nixon seem untrustworthy‚ which made many people lose trust for their nation. When this happened the people who were working for Nixon ended up getting in trouble because of the illegal action they were trying to pull off. When the whole investigation started to end President Nixon resigned in order for him not to face more charges. This
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psyche of the man himself. Richard M. Nixon was a secretive man who did not tolerate criticism well‚ who engaged in numerous acts of duplicity‚ who kept lists of enemies‚ and who used the power of the presidency to seek petty acts of revenge on those enemies. As early as the 1968 campaign Nixon was scheming about Vietnam. Just as the Democrats were gaining in the polls following Johnson’s halting of the bombing of North Vietnam and news of a possible peace deal‚ Nixon set out to sabotage the Paris peace
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election‚ Nixon opposed court-ordered busing and took a stand against criminals‚ drug users‚ and radicals. In order to continue his plans‚ Nixon authorized illegal investigations against thousands of citizens and used the government to its full capacity to help him win the election. Nixon initiated the Huston plan that infiltrated into the privacy of American lives and got to the point of breaking and entering to gather or plant evidence. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover opposed the plan‚ but Nixon secretly
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Watergate was the down fall of President Nixon. There were several things wrong with the events that would come to be known as Watergate. The name comes from the building named Watergate. Nixon essentially hired people to break into the Watergate building and place listening devices in an opponent’s office. If this was not bad enough he also did everything he could to cover up the scandal and the things he and his administration did during this time. While Nixon did a lot of good things during his presidency
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It’s hard to discuss the Vietnam War without mentioning President Richard Nixon. Like everything else related to Nixon‚ his role as a leader during the Vietnam War is the subject of debate‚ speculation‚ and much interest. For one‚ President Nixon won the 1968 election thanks to his secret plan to end the war through a strategy known as “Vietnamization” in order to bring “bring peace with honor”. However‚ Nixon’s leadership during this period cannot be discussed without mention of his domestic
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Andrew Johnson’s impeachment in 1868. Like everything else in this world it started off small‚ but escalades into something bigger. It started off as a small break in‚ but as time progressed the American people ran into a corrupt leader in Richard Nixon. At the end of this ordeal it rendered one of the most powerful men in America helpless. For it was Nixon’s active involvement in the cover up‚ combined with his administrations involvement in the scandal‚ which led to the tumultuous downfall of his
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In the recorded conversations that Richard Nixon‚ the 37th President of the United States‚ had with his White House aides‚ he reveals his motivations and his assumptions about the American public: “Everybody says we’ve got to protect this one and that one and the other one. The main thing we’ve got to protect is the Presidency”. He felt that the presidency granted him immunity to the law. Under his Presidency‚ an air of distrust of government gradually grew amongst US citizens. He led a criminal
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Scandal received similar solutions. Nixon established many policies such as the 90 day freeze on all wages and prices to better the economy and the National Environmental Policy Act as well as the EPA to help the environment. The United States faced many international challenges‚ Cold War and Vietnam War‚ as well as domestic challenges‚ inflation and civil rights‚ during 1968 and 1974. The United States was in the middle of domestic and worldly disputes when Nixon was elected president (Doc A). The
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The Watergate Scandal was one of the largest scandals of American history. Richard Nixon was a father‚ a President‚ a friend‚ a Congressman and was the cause of the Watergate Scandal. But he betrayed his country by trying to cover up the fact that he was a part of the scandal. Nixon tried to hide the fact he didn’t know about the scandal by giving money to the people who broke into the Watergate and tried to stop the investigators that were looking into the crime and even tried to get the Federal
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