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    All The President 's Men

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    employees resigned, were fired, or were arrested. Watergate was truly an earth shattering event that rocked America’s government. The 1976 film All the President’s Men is a historical movie depicting the investigation that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, two Washington Post reporters, carried out to find out the truth about the Watergate scandal during President Nixon’s reelection. Woodward’s White House insider, who was called “Deep Throat,” provided much needed clues, confirmations, and answers

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    In next year, all of the citizens in the United States of America are ready to welcome a new president- the 45th president of the America. When everyone think about presidents, they usually give them many honor words, and they also consider that presidents are the most powerful elected official in the world. Specifically, in the America, majority presidents are men, and they are always the best leader of the country. Not embarrassed when everyone talked like this because right now the U.S is one

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    In 1972, the biggest scandal in American politics occurred at the Watergate complex. For years, the struggle to reveal secret of who masterminded this operation occupied the courts in Washington D.C. The Committee for the Re-election of the President (CRP) fought to keep President Richard Nixon 's name clear throughout the confessions of the Watergate burglars and of men inside the White House. From 1972 until 2017, many other national scandals have been publicized to the nation, but current political

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    Trace Haven Mrs. Molzahn American Literature May 17, 2017 Nixon vs. People     President Richard M. Nixon once said, “ I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate” ("Watergate Quotes"). The Watergate scandal began when five men attempted to break into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Complex. The government had to create an act in order to have the right to view all surveillance footage

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    In his first couple of months in the oval office, Richard Nixon positively impacted the nation. As did most previous presidents do, Nixon had put himself right into action making sure he could build up and maintain and good reputation in office. But soon after completing his first term, disaster struck just as reelection was coming up. Nixon had destroyed his reputation, and by doing so showed the people how easy it was to be successful at a point and then lose it all due to one event, Watergate

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    Did you know that nearly 1,300,000 people die a year from texting and driving? Yet, people are still doing it today. Texting and driving is a very dangerous thing. The fact that texting and driving can cause accidents, risking your life and others’, and delay and distraction leads to the idea that people should stop texting and driving. There are many bad things that can happen from texting and driving. When people take their eyes off of the road, they are risking an incident or even their

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    Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were dedicated young reporters at the time Watergate occurred. There dogged pursuit for the truth kept the story from falling into obscurity. Woodward was a relatively new reporter at the time, a Yale graduate, and a Navy veteran. Bernstein dropped out of college and he started working in the newspaper industry at the age of sixteen. By age nineteen, he was a full-time reporter for the Washington Star. Although they were young, and Woodward had not even been a Post

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    President Richard Nixon did several things while in office that eventually led to his resignation in 1974. The most significant is that he plotted to wiretap and steal from different offices and other spaces to gather information to help lead to re-election and he also tried to cover up and lie about the scandal when it all unfolded. 1) “Nixon created a special investigative unit known as the “plumbers” to gather information…” (Foner, GML, 1031). These “plumbers” were all former employees for the

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    Watergate and Impact on America The actual Watergate burglary, in which the offices of the Democratic National Committee were broken into by Republicans, a burglary which was later covered up by Nixon, pales in comparison to many of the allegations that came out of the Watergate hearings. Nixon's "enemies list," his attempts to cover up certain truths about the Vietnam War, and his ranting White House tapes, 18 minutes of which were allegedly accidentally erased by Nixon's secretary, all showed America

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    Across the planet earth, there are some 196 sovereign countries that each have their own independent ways of ruling the people of their land. Whether it be a monarch, a dictator, or a president, no one in the world beckons such a large power as the President of the United States. This man or woman is in charge of one of the most powerful countries in the world, and that person makes vital decisions daily that could change the fate of their nation they lead so graciously. Through 44 presidents, the

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