Scandal

story is about the investigation of the Watergate scandal. The Watergate Scandal was uncovered as an illegal way of the reelection of President Richard Nixon. There was said to be an inside investigation, but there are doubts that that ever really happened. Two reporters from the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, did their own investigation, bringing down the president. It changed american politics forever. The Watergate scandal was first uncovered when paid men broke into the…

Watergate scandal, Leon Jaworski, said, “From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law”(“The Watergate Scandal”). President Richard Nixon dishonored the presidency by being deceitful to the country, misusing his powers by being involved in illegal acts, resulting in corruption and lies. Watergate was one of the worst presidential…

The watergate scandal involved five men from the Republican committee breaking into watergate hotel and bugging democrats rooms. It was later found out that Nixon had issued this order and may have been involved in many other scandals. Numerous noticeable individuals from the President's organization surrendered. VP Spiro Agnew was likewise compelled to leave for taking rewards. Congress then had Gerald Ford take the place of Spiro Agnew. A select Senate panel, headed by Senator Sam Erving,…

Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affected popular trust in the government. During his 1968 campaign, Nixon promised that he had a “secret plan” to put an end the Vietnam War. Once he was in office, he created a new policy called Vietnamization. With this, U.S. troops would slowly be withdrawn while South Vietnamese troops, backed by U.S. bombing, would take up fighting. However, Vietnamization did not end the war or end the antiwar movement like Nixon had planned. In early 1970, Nixon ordered…

"Fast and Furious" scandal, according to The Hill. The Obama administration refused to hand over the document for years, but now congressional lawmakers have the tools required to bring charges forward. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday that the department reached an agreement with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after a six year battle in court over the documents. The Obama administration refused to hand over any documents involving the scandal, which…

Many people testified, some more than once. The "Lewinsky Scandal, sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998-99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate" (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 1). It all started when Monica Lewinsky became an unpaid intern at the White House in June of 1995. By November of that year, Lewinsky and Clinton had been having a sexual relationship. Lewinsky had eventually went from being an intern…

When someone mentions the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon, America’s 37th president, often comes to his or her mind. Early in the morning on June 17th, burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee of the Watergate building in Washington D.C. These burglars were later found to be connected to President Nixon’s reelection campaign. Nixon claimed that he never knew anything about the scandal, but later he was found guilty lying to the public about what had happened. He resigned from…

Watergate For the next year, the Nixon Administration had kept their illegal tactics to themselves as they continued to taunt Ellsberg and everyone one the enemy list. (until they got caught...) On June 17th, 1972, five members of Nixon 's Administration were arrested as they were found to have broke in the Democratic National Convention headquarters at The Watergate Hotel. They had broke in numerous times. The first to set up wiretapping materials in the Democratic office and eventually in…

Guilty or Less Guilty? While some people may not believe that Nixon was involved in the Watergate Scandal, there is substantial proof that he was. The Watergate Scandal is considered to be one of the largest political scandals in history as well as the only one to bring down a presidency. While the news of the scandal shocked the nation, the culprit behind it all did not. "Richard M. Nixon was a secretive man who did not tolerate criticism well, who engaged in numerous acts of duplicity, who…

Introduction - Historic Enron Financial Scandal The merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth produced Enron in 1985 which started off slowly specializing in the natural gas and then grew to start increasing its product range. Kenneth Lay founded Enron and became Enron’s Chairman and CEO. However, Enron management aggressively decided the need to grow faster, increase investor’s confidence, attract more investments and increase their credit rating. In order to achieve their vision, the…