BOX 1.2 Yin (1994: 16) presents Bernstein and Woodward's All the President's Men (1974) on the Watergate scandal as a fine example of a journalistic case study, in which the case is defined as 'the cover-up'. As
The impeachment process for Nixon started in October 1973, after the Watergate scandal had dragged on for more than a year. Nixon resisted House subpoenas as the Watergate investigation intensified. The impeachment process began just days after the "Saturday Night Massacre," when Nixon fired the s...
When was FERPA passed? You can draw a direct line between FERPA and Watergate. Strange as the connection may sound, the Nixon Administration’ssecret data collectionduring the scandal created a strong appetite for privacy protections in the legislature in the early 1970s. Nixon resigned onAugust ...
What was the domino theory during the Cold War? What is the significance of the War on Terrorism? Define collectivization What caused the Soviet famine? What were the main events of the Russian Revolution? What was the significance of the Watergate Scandal?
By 1974, the Watergate scandal had consumed Richard Nixon's presidency and The Washington Post had become his arch nemesis. The paper, however, emerged victorious when it published two simple, yet Earth-shattering words on Aug. 9. Nixon resigned in disgrace after realizing he no longer had the...
To this end, we used a variant of the Watergate scandal, but set in Argentina in the 1980s. We hypothesized that whether or not people call a claim a conspiracy theory was less dependent on whether the claim included a con- spiracy, but rather whether the claim was true or false. We...
In the past, the term “grotesque” was used in a way that overlapped more with “the uncanny” when referring to works which blurred the line between the real and the fantastic. Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is a stand-out example here. Contemporary commentators often use ‘magical realism...
Are we to take seriously the idea that “everyone’s values should be accomodated” or its approximation “do the equivalent of taking a vote” or its meta-approximation “do the equivalent of what a vote would give us if everyone was able to get smarter and more educated to the extent ...
Dead wrong. The US Supreme Court made clear that the Florida Supreme Court did not change the rules of the election. But the US Supreme Court found the failure of the Florida Court to change the rules was wrong.Q: Huh? A: The Legislature declared that the only legal standard for ...
It was what was supposed to be great about America: my dad was a machinist for a company and my classmate’s father was an executive in the same corporation. They lived in the same community and their kids received the same education and “opportunity”. There was no stratification by ...