Watergate scandel (Nixon)

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Watergate Scandal

Political situation like the Watergate scandal proves that political leaders sometimes commit mistakes to the detriment of the society According to Watergate .Info , the term Watergate is a general term that was used to give a of a complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974 (Watergate .Info : The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon ,

.1 . It basically refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington , D . C

According to Britannica Concise , in June 1972 , there were five burglars who were arrested after forcely entering into

the Democratic Party 's national headquarters located at the Watergate Hotel premises (Britannica Concise : Watergate Scandal ,

. 1 . After a few days , the burglars were arrested and being charged of burglary as well as wiretapping . It included a former White House aide and G . Gordon Liddy who was a general counsel for the Committee to re-elect President Nixon (Britannica Concise : Watergate Scandal ,

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Britannica Concise also pointed out that , Nixon together with his aides deliberately denied that anyone in the administration was involved with the burglary that happened (Britannica Concise : Watergate Scandal br

. 1 . Albeit obvious suspicion from the people as reported by the media , the President still denied any involvement of the scandal . As a result , he was still re-elected into office as President

However , as Britannica Concise added , while hearings were conducted pertaining to the burglary cases there was an existence of tapes having conversations in the president 's office that was finally disclosed (Britannica Concise : Watergate Scandal ,

. 1 . Such disclosure was televised and made known to the people (Britannica Concise : Watergate Scandal ,

. 1 . That is why , Nixon was brought down into power and was deeply humiliated of what he had done . For reasons of the said

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public disclosure , Nixon resigned as President as was subsequently pardoned by his successor in presidency (Britannica Concise : Watergate Scandal ,

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Works Cited

Watergate : The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon . 1997 Watergate .Info . 15 February 2008

Watergate Scandal . Encyclopedia Britannica . 2008 . Britannica Concise Encyclopedia . 15 February 2008...