The Watergate was an American political scandal which occurred when Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was running for reelection against his democratic rival, George Stanley McGovern. During the election, the democratic national headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington DC were broken into and bugs were planted, and it was later revealed that the five burglars had ties not only to the government, but to the White House itself. During this investigation, FBI prosecutors discovered that the Director of the FBI, L. Patrick Gray, had helped with the
The evidence that surfaced was able to link Nikon to destroying key documents to cover-up of the break in as well as uncovering that the Nixon reelection committee had run “dirty schemes and tricks” during the campaign against the Democrats. It also shed light on the administrations illegal wiretapping of phones of “the enemies” or journalists that had been extremely critical of Nixon. Even though Nixon continued to maintain that he was innocent it was later revealed after numerous attempts to obtain the evidence that he secretly taped routine conversations that were had in his office. After the amount of incriminating evidence and the endless wonder about the depth of his involvement on August 8, 1974 during a televised special announcement Richard Nixon gave a one line speech vaguely admitting his involvement and public stepping down from office as President. He was succeeded by Gerald Ford who later pardoned Nixon from his crimes.
On august 8th 1974 president Nixon release his resignation speech to the world. Nixon did this because of the Watergate scandal. Nixon knew that he was going to be impeached, so he didn’t want that event to be strung on. President Nixon never stated that he had anything to do with the Watergate break-in. president Nixon was arguably one of the best presidents this country has ever had, but he was one of the most corrupt.
Zinn’s attitude throughout the entire chapter leads me to believe that he disapproves on extreme levels of the actions taken by the US during this time. On the Tonkin “attack”, he says, “It later turned out that the Gulf of Tonkin episode was a fake, that the highest American officials had lied to the public—just as they had in the invasion of Cuba under Kennedy,” (Zinn 476). The Americans, according to Zinn, worked exhaustingly to control half of Vietnam and oppose the National Liberation Front which worked to make the people free. Terrible accounts of murder, torture, and neglect are told, and it seems from Zinn’s perspective, this was an event that could have been avoided had the American government not been created with an instinctual itch for action. I was initially shocked in reading this chapter.
Littlejohn was later convicted of voluntary manslaughter while armed. Farooq claim that the security firm failed to properly supervise the security staff hired by John Doe. She claimed that because the hotel assigned an employee to interact with John Doe and the security team, the hotel must have had control over the security personnel and should be held liable for their negligent supervision. She said the security staff was negligent because it did not find the knife that Littlejohn brought to the party, even after searching attendees before they entered the room. The U.S District Court, District of Columbia said that even if Farooq’s claims that the hotel had control of the security were found to
(The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The FBI connected the payments to the burglars to a slush fund used by the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President. As evidence mounted against the president's staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in. After a series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes; he ultimately complied.)
This is big news about the situation of opposition party’s nominee. He can’t even care about his colleague’s stance about his party, how could he became the president of Uganda. By the way, text 2 is a significant article in history. It is extremely interesting because the research that done by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein caused the first resignation from Presidency in United States. They divulged the plot that planned by Richard Nixon and his colleagues.
With the formation of a government, the ways of a centralized government is supposed to be revolved around the importance of the people’s ideas and say in the government. But sometimes these demands and proper goals aren’t initiated by the government thus leading to great anarchy. Alexander Hamilton was able to completely deface the recognition of the human population by sending them in a great scandal. This scandal
He charged that there were 205 communist spies in the state department who were selling out the United States. McCarthy warned that there were communist traitors in American government and society that were threatening to destroy the United States. He declared: "When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within." McCarthy called for a "moral uprising" of Americans to drive these dangerous communists out of government and society. He also declared that the United States had lost ground in the world not as a result of foreign aggression, but “because of the traitorous actions of those who have been treated so well by this nation.” The corporate-controlled news media also shared the blame for McCarthy's ability to disseminate "great lies."
The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Scandal was a very low point in American history dealing with government and its corruption during this time. It started with multiple burglars breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. The scandal occurred from around March of 1971 to September 8, 1974 when then president Gerald Ford gave a full pardon to Richard Nixon for “all offenses against the United States committed between January 20, 1969 and August 9, 1974. (Watergate Chronology/spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk) It began on March 20, 1971 when Fredrick LaRue and Gordon Liddy attended a meeting where the members of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREP) where the members agreed to commit $250,000 to “intelligence gathering” operation against the Democratic Party. Then about one year after the original meeting, John N. Mitchell and Jeb Macgruger talk about the proposal made by Gordon Liddy a year earlier to place a wiretap on the phone of the chairman of the national Democratic Party Larry O’Brien.