In 1972, one of the largest scandals in United States history occurred. This constitutional crisis was called the Watergate Scandal. The Watergate scandal consisted of a series of court cases and the initial break in of the Watergate Hotel Democratic offices, it was also said to help President Nixon into re-election. There were many suspicions against Nixon and his government partners but the blame instantly was on the five men arrested for the break in. The Watergate Scandal trials occurred through 1972-1974, when Nixon, close to being impeached, eventually resigned from the presidency.
Watergate Scandal The Watergate scandal was one of the biggest political scandals, which rocked the United States in 1970s. The scandal which made the headlines of almost all the dailies of the world for several months and it changed the lives of several individuals, including the 37th U.S. President, Richard Nixon, and several others from the Nixon administration. Actually, for those who followed the scandal closely say that Watergate changed the history of American politics. June 17, 1972, five men were arrested at the Democratic National committee office suite in Watergate. The criminals planned to enter and bug the Democratic National committee home of the Democrats headquarters.
Congress played a major role in the Civil War as the Republicans were in control of both chambers.After Election of 1866, the Radicals came into power and impeached president Johnson and controlled the Reconstruction policy. Then in the Election of 1874, Democrats regained control of the House and has continued to dominate the House. As Burns recaptures the long history, I came to learn new information regarding President Nixon’s political career, which was greatly damaged by the Watergate Scandal causing him to resign in 1974. The Watergate reshaped the relations between Congress and other branches and led to increased congressional oversight of federal intelligence agencies. The documentary ends with President Clinton in office for 1992, which caused the shift of balance of power in favor of the Democrats.
Ron Sartena A few days ago, near perfect IQ Julian Assagn released secret government documents all pertaining to the Iraq, and Afghanistan war; there were nearly 400,000. All on his site wikileaks, Julian Assagn is now on the run after the biggest government hack in history. These "war logs" all give first hand accounts to what is actually going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sheds light to the amount of innocent blood lost. The reports detailed 109,032 deaths, comprised of 66,081 civilians, 23,984 "insurgent", they can label anyone as an insurgent, 15,196 iraqi government forces, and 3,771 freindlys. This means 31 civilians died every day over six years.
George Creel was an investigative journalist (muckraker, a politician, became the head of the US Committee on Public Information. The Committee on Public Information was a propaganda organization by President Woodrow Wilson during WWI that released government news, acted to sustain morale in the US, administered voluntary press censorship and developed propaganda abroad. Because of the Four-Minute Men division of the committee, roughly 75,000 civilian volunteers spoke to 314 million people over the span of 18 months on topics such as the draft, rationing, bond drives, and victory gardens. Creel set guidelines for the division that directed them to fill their talks with facts and appeals to emotion to bolster public support for the war efforts. Through the CPI and its divisions, Creel and the committee was able to control the flow of official war information.
The CIA equipped and trained more then 400 men fight under the command of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, and these men were also used for propaganda campaigns. They even created a Voice of Liberation radio station which would inform its listeners how the government is disloyal and can’t be trusted. The operation successfully ended leading Arbenz's to resign from office. The "Ten Years of Spring," is referred to the decade of dramatic social, economic, and political change that had occurred in Guatemala. This question has been asked many times “Why Do We Fight?” I honestly don’t think there is one single answer to this question because every single fight has its own reason and why it has occurred.
“It was the first time in our nation's history that a President had been assassinated. As cries from citizens rang out, Congress began to think about adding Presidential protection to the list of duties performed by the Secret Service” (Inside the White House) however this would have to wait. “In 1865, up to one-half of all the paper money in America was counterfeit” (About.com: US Government Info) so the idea of a Secret service as a organization dedicated to fixing this problem was put forth. After about three months of getting through the red tape and deciding the duties of this new group, “on July 5, 1865, Congress created the US Secret Service under the Treasury Department -- to stop the counterfeiting” (About.com: US Government Info). The success of this organization was amazing and the Secret Service began to make a name for its self.
This created a great deal of interest and the following year, a full-length version, How the Other Half Lives, was published. The book was seen by Theodore Roosevelt, the New York Police Commissioner, and he had the city police lodging houses that were featured in the book closed down. Over the next twenty-five years Riis wrote and lectured on the problems of the poor. This included magic lantern shows and one observer noted that "his viewers moaned, shuddered, fainted and even talked to the photographs he projected, reacting to the slides not as images but as a virtual reality that transported the new York slum world directly into the lecture hall." The work of Riis inspired Lincoln Steffens, the man considered to be the "godfather" of investigative journalism.
Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 Americans hostage. "From the moment the hostages were seized until they were released minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as president 444 days later," wrote historian Gaddis Smith, "the crisis absorbed more concentrated effort by American officials and had more extensive coverage on television and in the press than any other event since World War II." The United States and Iran The hostage crisis was the most dramatic in a series of problems facing Americans at home and abroad in the last year of the Carter presidency. Was Carter to blame for allowing it to happen? It's hard to say, since the hostage crisis was merely the latest event in the long and complex relationship between the United States and Iran.
The concept of Homeland Security continues to evolve as the challenges and threats America faces change. Write a one page paper (minimum 250 words, double-spaced) discussing the evolution of Homeland Security. Research the changing objectives and missions of the department and its growth to encompass all levels of government and the private sector (for-profit businesses not owned or operated by the government). Answer: The Homeland Security was evolved in September 11, 2011 after the terrorists attack of September 2011 in which 4 flights in United States are hijacked and were planned to hit World trade Centre in which millions of lives were killed. Earlier at the time of George W. Bush, DHS has 22 agencies and three agencies were