Scandal : The Watergate Scandal

A defining moment in American history, the Watergate scandal, dramatically transformed the way Americans view politicians and government. In the eyes of most Americans, trust, honor and integrity, vanished from the political landscape.

The Watergate Scandal was the downfall of Richard Nixon. It made Americans put less trust in the government and built trust in the media. It all takes place at the Watergate Hotel. He led an extremely corrupt administration to get him re elected. He also was the first President to resign. The unethical organization that was formed was called the CRP (later creep). They helped Nixon get re elected in 1972. They used illegal tactics to get him re elected. They paid lawyers for the burglars who broke into the Watergate Hotel. These people were known as the Plumbers. That was directed by John Ehrlichman. They were the White House investigation unit. They prevented information leak and burglarize any of Nixon reveals. Watergate seven was Richard Nixon closest comrades. They were in charge of the Creep and the plumbers that carried out many illegal activities. Christ the Transformer of Business culture is a good trait to obtain. “These people are intimately involved with those in the business, but their distinctive Christian standards are not lost” (Ruddell, 2004, p. 40). The people that were involved in the Watergate scandal should have had this trait.

Watergate, the greatest scandal of the 20th century, remains a shrouded mystery. Early on the morning of June 17, 1972, there was a break-in and several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in the Watergate Office complex building located in Washington, D.C. Thus began a series of events that would shake the public’s confidence in its most visible symbol of American authority and prestige: the presidency of Richard Nixon. A seemingly random robbery at a Washington, D.C. building leads to the first presidential resignation in American history. We will discuss the following events surrounding the Watergate break-in: when did the break-in occur, how was Nixon connected to the break-in. We will also discuss the events surrounding the discovery of the tapes, the issues involved in trying to get the tapes from President Nixon and what is the "18 1/2 minutes of silence". Finally, throughout this paper we will also include Archibald Cox the first Watergate special prosecutor.

Watergate is the popular name for the political scandal and constitutional crisis that began with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office in Washington D.C. on the night of June 17, 1972. It ended with the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon. The burglars and two co-potters-G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt were indicated on charges of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. Four monthes later, they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J. Sirica, who was convicted that pertinent details had not been unveiled during the trial and proffered leniency in exchange for further information. As it

The former 37th president of the united states Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California on Jan 9, 1913 the son of Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Nixon. Richard also had 4 brothers who were Harold, Donald, Arthur and Edward. Richards’s father had formerly lived in Ohio but has moved to California where he met his wife Hannah who was a Quaker. So Francis has given up his religion of Methodism to become a Quaker. Richards Parents worked on a ranch but were faced with tough financial circumstances so his parents left the ranch and opened a grocery store combined with a gas station. This made the financial status of the Nixon’s somewhat stable but it required everyone’s cooperation this helped him become the determined person he will become in the future. Richards’s parents did no go to college and study because they were into the farming business.

On June 17, 1972, inverstigators discovered that burglars hand intruded the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C. This burglary became known as the Watergate Scandal, in which, five member of Richard Nixons reelection campain broke into the Watergate Complex and stole many classified documents. The five memebers also wire tapped all of the phones within the complex to help gather extra classified information. Nixon denied any involvement in the burglary, but however, investigators began to uncover evidence that would soon link him to the scandal.

The President of the United States is one of the most coveted, but difficult positions to obtain in the world. Every four years a new leader is elected to uphold the supreme laws of the land that make up our constitution. The president is sworn into office on their inaugural day in January where they are sworn to faithfully execute and support all laws in the constitution, delegate international matters, and be an advocate for the people. As the new leader of the United States of America and, the free world as a whole, the President of the United States has many roles and functions, including: Commander-in-Chief, Chief Diplomat, Chief Legislator, Chief Magistrate, Chief Executive, Party Leader, Chief of State, Foreign Policy Director, and Popular Leader.

Nixon’s childhood wasn’t the childhood one dreams of having. Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California. His parents were not wealthy which meant Nixon had to work even harder to be successful (“Nixon”). Nixon was a great help in his family by helping in family gas station/grocery store. Nixon, the hard worker he was, enrolled at Whittier College in 1930. Nixon was very involved at his school

The Watergate Scandal happened almost 43 years ago; the event will never be forgotten. The Watergate scandal defined, perhaps for the first time, that a president of the United States could be portrayed as untrustworthy. Richard Nixon ran for a second term in 1972, in which he won by a huge margin. The Democratic Party had their headquarters at the high-end Watergate hotel. The break-in happened on June 17th, 1972, in which a security guard noticed the tape on the door lock. Five men were found in the office and were arrested for burglary. It seemed like a mission to spy on the Democratic Party since some of Nixon’s assistants were involved in the case.

“The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to bypass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.” The events leading up to the election of 1976 and the actual election was one of the mosted talked about election in US history. The Watergate Scandal turned America upside down and affected the election drastically. The candidates were very similar which split America in half and every vote counted. The Vietnam War was just ending and the Americans wanted a President that could stop the war and could make everyone come together. With the new movement happening in the 70’s the election of 1976 big topic was the New Right. It was

Woodward and Bernstein faced several obstacles while exposing the Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s involvement. At first their editor blocks them because their story lacks. They had few leads, and the leads they had led to nothing. When they called people who they thought were involved in to get information they would not talk and would hang up. Also when Bernstein called the White House Library to see if Howard Hunt checked out any material on Senator Kennedy. At first the librarian knew exactly what he was wanting and remembered he had checked out the material, then the librarian just suddenly forgot and said he did not check out any of the mentioned material. So that is some obstacle they faced while exposing the Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s

talking about how they should deal with it. The tape then is blank for 18.5 minutes long, and when it comes back on they're ending the topic of watergate. Since the tape started and ended with the watergate scandal it is very unlikely that they would be talking about such things as aliens.

Richard Milhous Nixon was born to Frank and Hannah Nixon on January 9, 1913. He was the second eldest son of five sons and was born and raised in Yorba Linda, California. His father worked as a jack of all trades until buying a family operated store where Richard worked as a child. Hannah Nixon taught Richard to read young, and by age five he was solidly progressing in the three R's. Throughout school Richard was always among the top of his class and upon graduation from Whittier High School he was offered financial scholarships to both Yale and Harvard. The scholarships covered tuition only and Richard was forced to decline them because he would be unable to afford the cost of living while away at school.

Watergate, the greatest political scandal of the 20th century, remains shrouded in mystery, in part, due to an 18½-minute gap in the tape recording of a Watergate discussion between President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff Bob Haldeman.

The years leading up to the 1972 election were filled with new political tactics. Going into the