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1970s Music Did you know that the inspiration behind Led Zeppelin's name came from something their drummer had always said “going down like a lead zeppelin” and of course they changed the spelling of lead to led so Americans wouldn’t pronounce it “leed” (Stewart 82). There are many things known about the seventies from Nixon’s presidency, the Watergate scandal to all the popular music genres and fashion choices and how they all had some effect on the average life of the common people. The Watergate

In the 1970’s, America not only witnessed the worst political scandal of the twentieth century, but also one of the most successful acts of investigative journalism to ever be done in America. The Watergate Scandal included a series of illegal activities initiated by members of President Nixon’s administration, the most significant crime being the break in and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972. CREEP (Committee to Reelect the President) funded these illegal projects

All the president’s men is an interesting and educational movie that reflects the political issue of the United States. The movie was based on the non-fiction book with the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Two reporters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein from the Washington Post who uncovered and joined in the investigation of Watergate Scandal of 1972. It is all about the arduous journey of discovering one of the biggest scandals in American politics. The story led to many controversial

Newly released text messages reveal the two anti-Trump, pro-Clinton FBI officials engulfed in a massive scandal spoke about ways to "get around" federal rules requiring the preservation of their cell phone text messages and how to acquire different phones.  In text messages released Thursday from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page also spoke about ignoring federal archive rule that have been part of the agency for many years, raising more

Analysis of All the President 's Men All the President 's Men, the 1976 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, is a detective thriller that portrays the story behind the Washington Post reporter 's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 's Pulitzer Prize winning relentless pursuit of the Watergate conspiracy. It initially started as a local burglary story and eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. Over 40 years after Nixon 's resignation, the Academy Award winning film was shown on July 14, 2017

Director Alan J. Pakula hit the nail on the head with his film, All the President’s Men, which does a fantastic job portraying the events of the Watergate scandal. Filmed in 1976, the movie encompasses the story of reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) from The Washington Post as they try to uncover vital details about the scandal. To keep an engaging audience, Pakula starts his film off with an eerie and controversial scene that portrays a guard ripping off

would never be the same after Carl Bernstein and his partner broke reporting boundaries by uncovering Watergate. On June 17, 1972, five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee, sparking the interest of Bernstein and his partner Bob Woodward. The situation escalated as a corrupt conspiracy was uncovered by the two American journalists; and ultimately, along with the help of other journalists and news outlets, President Nixon was forced to resign before Congress in light of his dishonest

In The Wars of Watergate Stanley Kutler accurately “described Watergate as ‘the nations most sustained political conflict and severest constitutional crisis since the Great Depression’” (Qtd. in Hillstrom, 2004, p.75). But that incident was just the key that unlocked a worm hole of unlawful activities that Richard Nixon’s administration was involved in. Some claim that the system established by the founders more than two hundred years ago was unequipped to handle the demands of the 20th century (Mosher

reporting of this story was getting the information from a second-hand source. According to a Democratic Party Investigator, Alfred Baldwin, a security guard for Nixon’s reelection committee, had named three men who saw these memos. Bernstein and Woodward did try to confirm this source through another party, a Justice Department official, but his confirmation was of incorrect information. As a result of this false report, William E. Timmons, Robert Odle, and Glenn Sedam were falsely accused to be

Olivia Sees Mrs. Shandera & Mr. Hill English pd. 3 & History pd. 9 10 February 2017 *Insert Title Here* The 1970 's: a decade of corruption, lies, and shadiness. It seemed impossible any good could come out of such a disaster. However, only one thing was certain: United States Government would never be the same. Republican President Richard Nixon ran for reelection in 1972, amidst the Vietnam War and a divided nation (History.com Staff). It was crucial that Nixon and his reelection team put forth