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 in fear of losing the election. The secrets of the Nixon administration emerged and resulted in an uproar of cynicism and a loss of trust between the government and the people, thus leading to the passage of new laws surrounding financial disclosure and limiting presidential power. Nixon’s early life reflects his motives for initiating the Watergate Scandal and how his control over power brought him down during his presidential years. Ever since he was a child, Nixon has been a serial collector of resentments; he raged for what he could not have or control. At the seven years old, he so wanted a jar of pollywogs a younger boy had collected from the forbidden canal that he beaned the kid in the head with the toy hatchet. He often felt unfairly put upon; at age ten he wrote a letter to the mother he revered in the voice of a pet: “My Dear Master, the dogs that you left with me are very bad to me...i wish you would come home right now”. The dogs are reference to his four brothers, who treated him horribly and brought him into a state full of weakness and defeat as a young boy. Twelve-year-old Nixon was given reason to believe that a concussion from a schoolyard rock thrown to Arthur’s head that Richard had been unable to prevent had been a contributing factor to his death months after from tubercular meningitis. Nixon kept the notion that older brothers are supposed to protect youngers ones, thus, he was convulsed by his failure and the loss. A childhood full of failure and insecurity, Nixon struggled with power his entire life, leading to his abuse of his presidential power. Adding to his insecurity regarding the inability to withhold power, Nixon struggled with controlling our country during the Vietnam War, causing him to panic and find a way to heal America’s wounds. …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 public’s anger and their demand for change, as Nixon’s capability to withhold his presidential power plummeted. In May 1970, when National Guard troops shot into a group of protesters demonstrating at Kent State against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, killing four students . This occurred after the draft was significantly increased from 3,000 in February to 33,000 a
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 in fear of losing the election. The secrets of the Nixon administration emerged and resulted in an uproar of cynicism and a loss of trust between the government and the people, thus leading to the passage of new laws surrounding financial disclosure and limiting presidential power. Nixon’s early life reflects his motives for initiating the Watergate Scandal and how his control over power brought him down during his presidential years. Ever since he was a child, Nixon has been a serial collector of resentments; he raged for what he could not have or control. At the seven years old, he so wanted a jar of pollywogs a younger boy had collected from the forbidden canal that he beaned the kid in the head with the toy hatchet. He often felt unfairly put upon; at age ten he wrote a letter to the mother he revered in the voice of a pet: “My Dear Master, the dogs that you left with me are very bad to me...i wish you would come home right now”. The dogs are reference to his four brothers, who treated him horribly and brought him into a state full of weakness and defeat as a young boy. Twelve-year-old Nixon was given reason to believe that a concussion from a schoolyard rock thrown to Arthur’s head that Richard had been unable to prevent had been a contributing factor to his death months after from tubercular meningitis. Nixon kept the notion that older brothers are supposed to protect youngers ones, thus, he was convulsed by his failure and the loss. A childhood full of failure and insecurity, Nixon struggled with power his entire life, leading to his abuse of his presidential power. Adding to his insecurity regarding the inability to withhold power, Nixon struggled with controlling our country during the Vietnam War, causing him to panic and find a way to heal America’s wounds. …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 public’s anger and their demand for change, as Nixon’s capability to withhold his presidential power plummeted. In May 1970, when National Guard troops shot into a group of protesters demonstrating at Kent State against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, killing four students . This occurred after the draft was significantly increased from 3,000 in February to 33,000 a