Imagined Scenes

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Imagined Scenes | Historical Context

The Nixon Years and Watergate
In 1974, the year Beattie wrote “Imagined Scenes,” the United States experienced one of the most disturbing political events of its two-hundredyear history. Two years earlier, in 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Headquarters, housed at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The burglars were caught, tried, and sentenced. No one, however, could have predicted the Pandora’s box the break-in would open. By 1973, the scandal had grown to include Richard Nixon, then president of the United States, and most of his staff. In April of...

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