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    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 Democratic Committee. There was a group of people who broke into these offices to obtain information on the coming election. Another goal of these burglars was to wiretap the committee phones and to sabotage them. Unfortunately for these want to be

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    Watergate, the greatest political scandal of the 20th century, remains shrouded in mystery, in part, due to an 18½-minute gap in the tape recording of a Watergate discussion between President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff Bob Haldeman. . There are forensic breakthroughs in understanding the “18½-minute gap.” Nixon’s loyal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, admitted to mistakenly making a single erasure of 4½ to 5minutes on the tape while making a phone call but vehemently denied making the entire

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    In the latest of political scandal we find Dean Skelos a Republican New York Senator from Long Island. Mr. Skelos and his son Adam are being investigated on corruption charges stemming from extorting money and soliciting bribes from business’s that were coming before the state of New York. This investigation has caused Mr. Skelos to step down from his post as a Senate Majority Leader. Mr. Skelos solicited money to be paid to his son Adam for work he never performed. “Mr. Skelos is accused of

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    missing watergate tape On June 17th, 1972 a political scandal occurred in the United states. Four cuban americans and one american broke into the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate office complex. Five burglars were caught and it was discovered that the President Nixon administration was involved. There were also other things discovered such as the bugging of political offices and FBI investigations on Mr. Nixon's Political Opponents. The scandal was then investigated by the U.S. congress

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    President Richard Nixon was involved in a major political scandal during the 1970s that resulted from a break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. The scandal was known as the Watergate scandal. The scandal was called Watergate because it occurred at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon and his administration attempted to cover up the scandal, but the scandal was discovered and investigated by Congress. The scandal comprised of illegal activities such as bugging

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    Political scandals are fundamentally impending, regardless of government type. One example would be the Iran-Contra Affair during the Reagan Administration, where the U.S violated the embargo policies against Iran. Another example would be the “stimulus” heist during the Obama Administration, where he basically took trillions of dollars in the name of “stimulus” spending. These types of scandals, however, have been more prevalent these days due to the fact that more people are gaining more extremist

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    Governor who was impeached from office under an unanimous vote, and imprisoned for 14 years on many charges including corruption. There are a few things that make news headlines what the Kardashians are doing, Donald Trump’s new racist claim, and Political Scandals. Corruption is spreading so fast. It's almost moving faster than the flu through a kindergarten classroom. It is known the the people elect to run this country are abusing their power. If an example is needed just look at everyone’s best friend:

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    in the railroad industry, but also in political campaigns, that had plagued the late nineteenth century before it. The significance of this is that, while corruption had no doubt existed prior to this period, the sheer scale of this new corruption and the magnitude of the resulting political scandals was unlike anything America had witnessed before. Muckraking writer Lincoln Steffens, in his book The Shame of the Cities, described the problem of the political sphere of his time by stating: “politics

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    In the 1970’s There was a series of events that shook the political structure beyond repair. The watergate scandal is a series of illegal actions on the political front that destroyed President Richard Nixon 's presidential Occupation. The main topics that will be covered in this essay are that of the burglary, about President Richard Nixon’s committee to re-elect the President (CREEP), and The evidence that contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon. The Burglary that lead to the uncovering

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    it has not been prevalent nearly as much in the past as it is today. Political corruption is when people at the highest levels of the political system misuse their power in order to make private gains. Political leaders are figures that are supposed to be looked up to and are supposed to make moral and rational decisions, not like the kind of decisions that are increasingly being made today. Considering that most of these political leaders work for the government, and the government is what this country

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