The Watergate Scandal

This testimony led to the fight for the tape recordings from the House Judiciary Committee, the House believed that these could help uncover his role in the Watergate Scandal. The public was having an increase in suspicion of Nixon because of his vigorous effort to defend the tapes. After the Supreme Court’s rejection of Nixon's executive privilege, there were over 700 white house files, 19 presidential conversations, and over 42 additional tapes taken, but the biggest suspicion was the eighteen and a half minute silent gap in a conversation with Mr.Haldeman in 1972. Nixon later in court lies about the $25,000 check given to Bernard Barker, saying that he is probably a “bum” and definitely did not receive the money from CREEP, even though the check was directly traceable to the committee. On May 10, 1989 the House of Representatives adopted 3 Articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, with the first two articles charging Nixon with giving false testimony before the grand jury and the third article with bringing disrepute on the Federal judiciary. These charges placed on the highest position in American society is disastrous and leads to a distrust in government within the American people.The fact that Nixon was granted a full pardon and was acquitted of all of the charges makes Americans lose hope in the American Judicial System and makes people question the “role of the

The Watergate Scandal and crisis that rocked the United States began on the early morning of June 17, 1972 with a small-scale burglary and it ended August 9, 1974 with the resignation of Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon. At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972, five burglars were discovered inside the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington DC. The burglars, who had been attempting to tap the headquarters’ phone were linked to Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). Over the next few months, what had began as a minor break-in quickly escalated into a full-blown political scandal. It was

This is what Richard M Nixon said after resigning from presidency, being the only president to resign. He resigned from presidency for being mixed up in the watergate scandal or was it a mix up?

Nixon, at the time, was running for re-election, and it turned out that all of the campaigning was revolved around illegal wrongdoings. The greatest of these wrongdoings being the scandal, in which 5 members of his reelection campaign,James w. Mccord Jr.,John Dean,G. Gordon Liddy, Alaxander Butterfield, and Jeb Magruder initially broke into the Watergate Complex stealing many classified documents, as well as photographing them, along with tapping all of the phones within the building. In doing this, these men hoped to gain an unfair advantage for the campaignee in the election, Richard Nixon. The inital setup with the wire taps in the phones, however, did not work as planned which led to the need to re-enter the complex in order to fix the problem. They initially got away with their wrongdoing, but were not as lucky in their second

This paper will explain what really occurred in the Watergate affair. This historical scandal has forever be a smudge on American President’s legacies and past. This paper will aim to try and analyze Watergate and the people involved. It will attempt to make sense of why it all happened, and how Nixon, personally, was affected by the outcome. Richard Nixon and the others behind the affair, had to live the rest of their lives knowing what they happened that night and after still affects us

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward became famously known as the reporters that broke the Watergate Scandal and changed American politics forever. When five people were arrested in 1972 for breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee, Bernstein and Woodward investigated. They compiled facts and relied on sources. These findings eventually lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon when the scandal was discovered to be an operation to give Nixon an advantage in the presidential campaign. Although regulations have changed since the 1970’s, Bernstein and Woodward followed the SPJ Code of Ethics. The code declares four principles; seek the truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently and be accountable and transparent.

After the events that took place and Nixon’s resignation, a massive trend of distrust in the government began. Even today a wide majority of people still do not trust the American government, this is one of the greatest effects the scandal had on the United States. One law that was created due to impact of Watergate was the Sunshine Act, the Sunshine Act is a law that requires government agencies to be open and public to Americans. Another law that was passed was the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, what this law stated was that public officials had to make financial disclosures and former employment public, and led to the creation of Office of Government Ethics “an executive agency responsible for issuing rules and regulations about ethical conduct and financial disclosure, providing training in ethics, monitoring the ethics of practices in departments and agencies, and giving guidance on matters of ethics.” (USLegal). At the end of the whole scandal many government officials had been jailed, but there were three major figures involved in the scandal known as the “Big Three”. John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, and H.R. Haldeman, convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice and bribing the burglars to keep quiet were sentenced to two and a half years in prison for their involvement in the scandal. Finally the last change that came of watergate was President Gerald Ford becoming president

The Watergate Scandal was the downfall of Richard Nixon. It made Americans put less trust in the government and built trust in the media. It all takes place at the Watergate Hotel. He led an extremely corrupt administration to get him re elected. He also was the first President to resign. The unethical organization that was formed was called the CRP (later creep). They helped Nixon get re elected in 1972. They used illegal tactics to get him re elected. They paid lawyers for the burglars who broke into the Watergate Hotel. These people were known as the Plumbers. That was directed by John Ehrlichman. They were the White House investigation unit. They prevented information leak and burglarize any of Nixon reveals. Watergate seven was Richard Nixon closest comrades. They were in charge of the Creep and the plumbers that carried out many illegal activities. Christ the Transformer of Business culture is a good trait to obtain. “These people are intimately involved with those in the business, but their distinctive Christian standards are not lost” (Ruddell, 2004, p. 40). The people that were involved in the Watergate scandal should have had this trait.

When It comes to Nixon (Resignation Address to the Nation), I feel that he was very on point because the situation that was happening. But, he had to be because of the big Watergate Scandal that as going on with him. Nixon message was very clear and concise where he apologizes, as well as, ask the nation to work with the new President. Due, that the scandal as publicizes through the years 1972 to 1974 the channel was televised.

The Watergate Scandal was political problem that occurred in the United States during the 1970s. On June 17, 1972 a break in occurred at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon's administration attempted cover up of its involvement. In the morning of June 17 1972, a couple of burglars were caught and arrested inside the of the Democratic National Committee, located at the Watergate building in Washington D.C. this was no ordinary robbery. The robbers were connected to the United States president Richard Nixon re election campaign, and they were caught trying to wiretap the phones. The robbers who tried to wiretap the phones were not successful. more robbers broke into the

America has always been viewed as a country of freedom and hope, a place that rose from the ashes of war to become a great and shining place that welcomes all. Thinking of it like this is simply not how history works, however; we’ve had many dark times and secrets and twisted ways of dealing with anything and everything, and not all of our leaders have been ambitious and compassionate presidents. This comes most blatantly into play with the Watergate Scandal, a trail of deceit and cover-ups that lead Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, to his resignation from the government.

The Watergate scandal during Richard Nixon's presidency was arguably the high point of journalism's role in American politics. What had been considered a rather inept burglary attempt upon Democratic party offices in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. and was therefore ignored by most journalists when it happened was investigated by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, until it was proven to be a criminal conspiracy whose organization and subsequent cover-up reached as high as the Oval Office. In terms of media coverage of the scandal, however, it is worth noting that while Woodward and Bernstein had access to a privileged source of information, whom they named only as "Deep Throat" (but much later revealed to be high-ranking FBI official W. Mark Felt), they were not the only reporters covering the scandal as it unfolded. By looking at other journalistic sources, it may be possible to get a larger view of how President Nixon dealt with the scandal, how public opinion and responded, and ultimately how Nixon was led to resign.

A defining moment in American history, the Watergate scandal, dramatically transformed the way Americans view politicians and government. In the eyes of most Americans, trust, honor and integrity, vanished from the political landscape.

Once broken, the seal of Watergate could never be replaced. The five men brought arrested for breaking into the Watergate Complex had to be served fair justice. The official hearings began on January 8th, 1973 (Files 1). However, fair trials would not prevail. Edward B. Hunt ordered the payout of twenty thousand dollars to each member of the break-in team, fifty thousand for his lawyer, and seventy thousand dollars for himself (Files 6). The “hush money” proved successful. All four Cuban men pled

Bribery is “a questionable or unjust payment often to a government official to ensure or facilitate a business transaction” (Lawrence & Weber, 2014, p. 105). The giving of money, the providing of a scholarship or gift, and the creation of favorable publicity are all forms of bribery (Sanyal, & Samanta, 2011; Sanchez, Gomez, & Wated, 2008). Within international “bribery…a…firm from country A offering financial or non-financial inducements to officials of country B to obtain a commercial benefit” (Sanyal, & Samanta, 2011, p. 153). Bribery is an unethical and illegal activity, as demonstrated by the passage and enforcement of the U. S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)(Lawrence & Weber, 2014). Scholarly research reveals that bribery is a two sided process consisting of the supply side - the firms who supply the bribes - and the demand side - the individuals receiving the