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    action ad, and indirect action ad. The three main components of the advertising industry are advertisers, agencies, and the media. Towards the beginning of the Watergate scandal, before it really broke open, it was largely ignored by most news sources. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward were intrigued by what was going on with Watergate and were called to work on a story…

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    The Watergate Scandal was a situation in which Richard Nixon intercepted information in which he was not allowed to obtain.The speech that Richard Nixon gave about the Watergate Matter, as well as the speech that Vice President Gerald Ford gave, both serve the same purposes. These purposes were to appease the public, to announce the President’s resignation of office, and to allow President Nixon apologize to the public. This subject greatly displeased the public and caused many people to…

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    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…

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    The Chappaquiddick Scandal Who would have known that a fun night at a party could turn into such a detrimental accident. Not only Ted Kennedy’s life, but several other people's lives were changed forever. As this incident shows, anyone's life can be changed in a split second. We should not take life for granted, but instead cherish every minute of our life. Earlier that night, Ted had attended a party at a cottage on an island known as, Martha’s Vineyard. He and five other married men met with…

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    Before the summer of 1972, Watergate was nothing more than the name of an expensive, luxurious hotel in Washington D.C. Nobody would have predicted that this hotel would be associated with the biggest political scandal in the history of the USA.This scandal would ultimately led to President Nixon’s resignation and the loss of American trust in their leaders.Therefore, the Watergate Scandal was a bad influence on American history. It all began with the politics in the 1960’s during the time in…

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    How destructive is the white savior complex? While the white savior complex article written by “Teju Cole” argues that many efforts by the North Americans to rescue “victims” of poverty and injustice in Africa are more about the western activist and their desire for a sentimental heroism than caring about the actual need of the African, it ultimately causes a major division between white activist and the racial other. The white savior complex is basically quite destructive trope that has been…

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    was released in 1976 as a political film based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. It follows two journalists for The Washington Post in their investigation of the Watergate scandal. The film opens with the police discovering five burglars inside the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate complex. The following morning, thinking that the story will be of little importance, The Washington Post assigns coverage of the story to a new reporter named Bob Woodward. He…

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    DEMISE OF RICHARD NIXON’S PRESIDENCY 2 The Demise of Richard Nixon’s Presidency In 1974, Republican President, Richard Nixon was forced to resign from office due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal. The scandal was a major upset to the Republican party causing the first resignation from a president and seven of his administrators to be arrested for their participation. The reason for the arrest and resignation was a cause of…

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    finished his term with just a little advice. When Richard Nixon departed as president in 1974, he was generally disliked as an aftereffect of the Watergate scandal. Although most people consider him to have very little compensating qualities, Watergate is conceded to be confirmation of his being inadequate to be a good leader, hence his termination. The Watergate scandal is Nixon's most egregious accusation as the…

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    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…

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