The Watergate Scandal - E-book - ePub

The particular Watergate Scandal had begun during themorning of 17th June, 1972. This was the time when variousburglars had been arrested in the respective office of the DNC(Democratic National Committee) that had been located at theWatergate Complex of the series building situated in WashingtonD. C. This scandal was considered to be no normal burglary. Allof the prowlers had been connected to the re-election campaignof the President Richard Nixon.
These burglars had beenarrested stealing documents and wiretapping phones. ThePresident Nixon had taken aggressive steps towards coveringup the crime after the same happened. During the time ofAugust in 1974, after the role of Nixon in the given conspiracyhad been revealed, the President Nixon had resigned. Theparticular Watergate Scandal had changed the overall Americanpolitics drastically forever, which had led to several Americanstowards questioning the potential leaders and think in a morecritical manner about the given presidency.
As a result of this, the series of several events took place oneafter another that had resulted into the particular scandalgetting more complicated. This incident or scandal wasresponsible for convulsing the entire Washington D. C. for theperiod of 2 years, which had led to the 1st resignation of thePresident of the United States and had changed the Americanpolitics forever. Finally, on 5th August, the President Nixon hadreleased the respective recordings and tapes, which hadprovided undeniable proofs of his involvement in the givenWatergate Scandal along with the crimes related to save hisre-election campaign.
In the face of around variousimpeachment by the Congress in the United States, thePresident Nixon had resigned in quite a disgrace on 8thAugust, and had left the respective office the day whichfollowed after. The Watergate Scandal had shaken the entire American politicsand its famous leaders who were shook by the fact of theinvolvement of the concerned president in the given case.