Exploitation Leading to a Worse Tomorrow
A new president is elected every four years to run our nation, represent the country, and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The President of the United States acts as the most powerful man in the world and therefore, we must place our trust into his hands. When the society discovers that their elected president becomes untrustworthy and secretive , a bond is broken. The Watergate Scandal of Richard Nixon and the most notorious political scandal of US history, imposed fear into the eyes of Americans, and forced them to question what will become of our nation. A bond of trust was broken by Nixon, as he initiated the wiretapping and break-in of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters …show more content…
. By 1972, when President Richard Nixon was running for reelection, the United States had been embroiled in the Vietnam War for 17 years and deeply divided internally as a result. Re-election insecurity and positioned in a war that hurt our nation economically and emotionally, Nixon was aware of the stress put on him and high expectations he would have to live up to, however: “Nixon was among those who stopped bothering. Just as the initial support for the reforms waned, so Nixon’s enthusiasm disappeared. The war in Vietnam was proving to be far more intractable than he hoped and he was forced to devote more and more of his attention to the effort to end it” . In his first term as president, Nixon promised the American public that he would reduce U.S. troop levels in Vietnam. He pursued a plan he called "Vietnamization," whereby the U.S. would gradually withdraw from the war, leaving the South Vietnamese army to shoulder the bulk of the fighting. Despite his plan that would gradually end the war, the number of troops in Vietnam stayed high and the Nixon administration entered into war with Vietnam 's neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos. The grand amount of protests, specifically ones in Kent State, achieved national and international prominence and illustrated the
A new president is elected every four years to run our nation, represent the country, and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The President of the United States acts as the most powerful man in the world and therefore, we must place our trust into his hands. When the society discovers that their elected president becomes untrustworthy and secretive , a bond is broken. The Watergate Scandal of Richard Nixon and the most notorious political scandal of US history, imposed fear into the eyes of Americans, and forced them to question what will become of our nation. A bond of trust was broken by Nixon, as he initiated the wiretapping and break-in of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters …show more content…
. By 1972, when President Richard Nixon was running for reelection, the United States had been embroiled in the Vietnam War for 17 years and deeply divided internally as a result. Re-election insecurity and positioned in a war that hurt our nation economically and emotionally, Nixon was aware of the stress put on him and high expectations he would have to live up to, however: “Nixon was among those who stopped bothering. Just as the initial support for the reforms waned, so Nixon’s enthusiasm disappeared. The war in Vietnam was proving to be far more intractable than he hoped and he was forced to devote more and more of his attention to the effort to end it” . In his first term as president, Nixon promised the American public that he would reduce U.S. troop levels in Vietnam. He pursued a plan he called "Vietnamization," whereby the U.S. would gradually withdraw from the war, leaving the South Vietnamese army to shoulder the bulk of the fighting. Despite his plan that would gradually end the war, the number of troops in Vietnam stayed high and the Nixon administration entered into war with Vietnam 's neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos. The grand amount of protests, specifically ones in Kent State, achieved national and international prominence and illustrated the