The Political Scandal Of Watergate Watergate was one of the biggest political scandals to ever happen in the United States and would force President Nixon to resign from office in 1974. Watergate is office complex located in Washington D.C and at the time it was the headquarters of the Democra...
The Watergate affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in June 1972. The actual damage done by the break-in was negligible. But, the deepening scandal revealed a pattern of abuses of power by the Nixon a...
"I really find it hard to believe that Nixon would've resigned in an environment like the one we have today," said Brian Rosenwald. As a lecturer about conservative politics at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosenwald has thought about the what-ifs of the Watergate scandal. Nixon, he said...
Melissa Graves started out to write about the fundamental conflict between the FBI’s duties, as the premier federal investigative agency, and the fact that it answers to the president while also investigating said president from time to time. Her focus was the Nixon administration, when this...
The Watergate scandal happened at a period when technology was not well developed and social media was nonexistent. If it were to happen in today’s society, its coverage would be better because people would have access to detailed and timely information. They would use their smartphones to cr...