Francis Ford Coppola

announce Nixon resigned, and if he didn’t he would most likely have been impeached. This is the first time in United States History that a president has left the office in the middle of his term. Nixon ended up being pardoned of all his crimes by Gerald Ford, his successor. However, many people on Nixon’s staff were sent to prison for serious crimes, like perjury. The Watergate Scandal is important because it helped to create a lasting separation between the government and the people. It also…

Many amazing things happened during the industrial revolution, but one of my favorite things that happened was the invention of the Model T and eventually the Model A. The inventor that made these things was Henry Ford. When he was a kid he used to take apart watches, to find how they worked then put them back together, when he was 13 he was a watch repairman. But he didn't want to stop there, when his mom died he left the farm he lived at, he said that he never liked farm work, just the mom…

Richard Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974 due to the crimes that took place during Watergate and his presidency. Nixon’s public appearance appealed to many, promoting anti-communism and his military background gained him the support of America, but Nixon led a different life filled with subterfuge and trickery. The events unraveled at Watergate opened the minds of Americans revealing what was truly happening behind the scenes in contrast to how a president is perceived in public.…

This paper is my reaction to the article Watergate. The article describes, in detail, what events went down during the Watergate Scandal. The scandal started in June of 1972 when 5 men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters and were charged for burglary. Over the course of the scandal, 28 of Nixon's aides and officials were charged with crimes that were connected to the President. President Nixon finally resigned in August of 1974. I was…

Watergate Multiple people call this the “Scandal that Brought Down Nixon.” The watergate scandal was a big factor and political topic in 1972-1974. The watergate refers to the hotel in Washington, one of Washington’s plushest hotel. The Watergate has an intriguing historical and political background arising out of political events of the 1960s such as Vietnam and the publication of the Pentagon papers, but the real problem begins in 1972. by the time the burglars were arrested, Nixon was…

The Watergate scandal, ran by President Richard Nixon and his committee to re-elect him, was considered one of the greatest political scandals in our world today. The scandal consisted of performing illegal tasks behind everyone’s back and covering reasoning behind each of them by lying on a consistent basis. Most of the task, such as approving the Houston Plan (or Plumbers) and the U. S. bombing took place months before the day of election. Unfortunately, the members of the Plumbers were…

On April 10,1922 was when the teapot dome scandal began. The teapot dome scandal was a scandal dealing with the oil companies and the white house. It was also where the oil companies found a lot of oil(history.com). They used the oil as vast fuel. The scandal was important because the oil companies bought the white house. The corruption was so bad that the oil companies bought the white house. The scandal was hard for fitzgerald because he was living through corruption. During the war the…

meet? Well, today I'm going to teach you about Gerald R. Ford. Ford was the 38th president for the United States. Later, you will find out about Gerald Ford's early life, his college years, his presidency, and his life after presidency. Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1914. However, he grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ford’s birth name was Leslie King, Jr.; he was named after his father. His mother was, Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford. Ford attended South High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan.…

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus. Harrison was a lackluster student at Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin,…

My entrepreneur was a great man who only wanted to serve the citizens of America….and make money. His name was Eli Lilly and still today his good name lives on not only through his family, but also through his company. He was born on July 8, 1838 in Baltimore, Maryland and died on June 6, 1898 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His childhood was like any other, he was the son of Gustavus and Esther Lilly. His family was from Swedish decent, they moved to the low country of France. His grandparents…