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The Watergate Scandal
The break in led to Nixon's resignation because Nixon tried to use his power as president to cover up what had happened. It does not appear that Nixon personally had anything to do with ordering...
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The Watergate Scandal
The main way in which this scandal demonstrated the vitality of a democratic society was in the fact that the US political system continued to function throughout the scandal. Everything was done...
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The Watergate Scandal
Presumably Richard Nixon caused the Watergate Scandal because of some defect in his personality. If he had been a completely rational person, he would have realized that the break-in could not...
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The Watergate Scandal
The Watergate Scandal revealed much about America and American politics. Essentially, the scandal, itself, concerned President Nixon's desire to consolidate power to protect himself from all...
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The Watergate Scandal
The Watergate building in Washington D.C. was where the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters. The Watergate burglars broke into the office to see if they could find any kind of...
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The Watergate Scandal
The major importance of the Watergate scandal in the short term was that it caused the resignation of President Nixon. This was the only time that an American President has ever had to leave...
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The Watergate Scandal
The impact of Watergate on American Politics was felt on multiple levels. The most elemental of these was how the news media evolved into the "fourth check" on the government. From Watergate,...
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The Watergate Scandal
If President Nixon had not chosen to resign in the face of the Watergate scandal, he almost surely would have been impeached and convicted. This would not have made much difference to him...
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The Watergate Scandal
The Watergate Scandal has defined Richard Nixon's legacy as a former President. Despite the fact that he was elected twice, served six full years and successfully extracted us from an unpopular,...
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The Watergate Scandal
I agree that it demonstrated strength. The reason for that is that a sitting president was forced out of office for trying to use his position to cover up a crime that had been committed. The...
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The Watergate Scandal
There have been two major impacts of Watergate on the nation's political processes. First, members of the media have become obsessed with scandal. They are constantly trying to catch politicians...
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The Watergate Scandal
The “Smoking Gun” tape was a tape that clearly showed President Nixon involving himself in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal very early on. The Watergate burglary had occurred on June 17,...
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The Watergate Scandal
This is, of course, a matter of opinion. My own view is that President Nixon absolutely needed to resign. I also think that it was best for the country that President Ford pardoned him. I think...
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The Watergate Scandal
This is, of course, a matter of opinion. My opinion is that Watergate was way worse than either of the other two. The reason I say this is that Watergate involved an actual cover up ordered by the...
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The Watergate Scandal
The Vietnam War and Watergate were polarizing events that took place during a very volatile period of US history. While during most of the twentieth century, Americans had been able to pull...
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The Watergate Scandal
In as simple terms as possible, the Watergate scandal was an attempt by members of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President and other White House officials to gather information from the...
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The Watergate Scandal
In the Saturday Night Massacre, President Richard Nixon essentially forced two Attorneys General to resign so that he could find one who would fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor who was...
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The Watergate Scandal
In terms of the anatomy of the incident and its implications on American History, then- White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman could be considered by many standards to be an overt actor in the...
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The Watergate Scandal
I think that you will be able to find many resources written on the topic. In the short term analysis, I think that the Constitution played a vital role in the Watergate affair. The basic idea...
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The Watergate Scandal
Nixon was accused of covering up the Watergate scandal and lying about it to the American people. The infamous botched burglary at the Democratic National Committee in Washington was part of a...
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The Watergate Scandal
The significance of the "smoking gun" tape is that it made completely clear that Pres. Nixon had entered into a criminal conspiracy that was meant to obstruct justice. This made it inevitable that...
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The Watergate Scandal
In the end, I think that the Watergate Scandal played a decisive role in the resignation of Richard Nixon. The event itself, the cover up that followed, and the revelation of the unsavory nature...
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The Watergate Scandal
To me, there have been two major impacts of the Watergate scandal on American government. First, I would say that the scandal (along with the Vietnam War) made the Congress much more aggressive...
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The Watergate Scandal
While there were other scandals involving Nixon, such as the one when he ran as vice president to Eisenhower, which involved reports of the use of a personal slush fund, Watergate was far more...
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The Watergate Scandal
In my opinion, my perception of government power would have been affected whether or not I had voted for Nixon. However, if I had voted for Nixon, I probably would have done so because I did not...
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The Watergate Scandal
Going on the information it had that the President might be involved in wrongdoing or criminal activity, Congress launched a series of hearings. These hearings on Watergate compelled members of...
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The Watergate Scandal
Of course, there is no way to know what would have happened if Nixon had not been forced from office. We can never go back and rerun history to see how things could turn out differently. All we...
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The Watergate Scandal
I would argue that the Watergate scandal led to Americans having less trust in their government. This is especially true because it came after the years of the Vietnam War, which had already...
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The Watergate Scandal
Simply put, Watergate completely destroyed Nixon's reputation. For many years, political opponents had alluded to his penchant for dirty tricks, but few people thought he would stoop so low as to...
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The Watergate Scandal
Although all of the people mentioned in these options were famous in the 1970s, the only ones who were reporters involved in the Watergate scandal were Woodward and Bernstein. For this reason, A...
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The Watergate Scandal
Despite Watergate, Nixon established the Republican ascendancy that followed him. Nixon claimed to represent what he called the "Silent Majority," by which he meant the conservative white Americans...
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The Watergate Scandal
"Watergate" was the name of a hotel-apartment complex in Washington, District of Columbia. In 1972, offices in the complex were being rented by the national Democratic Party for use during the 1972...
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The Watergate Scandal
The entire Watergate Scandal, not just one part of it, shattered the nation’s confidence in the government. The idea that a sitting President and his closest advisors felt the need to break the...
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The Watergate Scandal
The Watergate Scandal was a sordid series of events involving criminal conduct and corrupt activity in the executive department which extended to the President himself and ultimately brought about...
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The Watergate Scandal
The Democratic Party had their headquarters in the Watergate office complex in 1972. More specifically, the Democratic National Committee was headquartered there. On June 17, 1972, their offices...
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The Watergate Scandal
Outside of the break- in to the Democratic Headquarters itself as an overt act intrinsic to the scandal, I would say that one of the most important overt acts would be the commissioning of the...
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The Watergate Scandal
The relationship between the burglars and the Committee to Reelect the President was that the committee in essence ordered the burglary. In the run-up to the 1972 presidential election, there were...
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The Watergate Scandal
It is somewhat strange that President Nixon was so concerned about covering up for the Watergate burglars. After all, he did not (so far as we know) personally have any knowledge of their actions...
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The Watergate Scandal
There are arguments to be made for both sides of this issue. Some people would say that President Ford made a mistake. Such people generally argue that Ford should have let Nixon be charged with a...
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The Watergate Scandal
The idea of “overt acts” is important to the Watergate scandal because overt acts can be used to prove that a conspiracy has taken place. In the Watergate case, there was a conspiracy to commit...
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The Watergate Scandal
I think that Watergate reflects much that had been present in Nixon's career. In many respects, I think that Watergate represents the culmination of different flickers and embers that had been...
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The Watergate Scandal
I think that many figures can be identified, but why not go for the most important one in the President, himself? Richard Nixon has to be seen as one of the most important figures in the Watergate...