What was Watergate crisis?

Answer 1

Watergate is the name of a Hotel in Wahington where the famous break in that caused a scandal for President Richard Nixon and resulted in his resignation.

Watergate has become a general term for a series of political scandals, which began with the arrest of five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington D.C. office/apartment complex and hotel called the Watergate on June 17, 1972. The attempted cover-up of the break-in ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House Judiciary Committee and the press revealed that this burglary was just one of many illegal activities authorized and carried out by Nixon's staff. They also revealed the immense scope of crimes and abuses, which included campaign fraud, political espionage and sabotage, illegal break-ins, wiretapping on a massive scale, including the wiretapping of the press and regular citizens, and a secret slush fund laundered in Mexico to pay those who conducted these operations.[1] This secret fund was also used as hush money to buy silence of the seven men who were indicted for the June 17 break-in.[2] President Nixon and his staff conspired to cover up the break-in as early as six days after it occurred. [3] After enduring two years of mounting evidence against the President and his staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in a Senate investigation,[4] it was revealed that Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations.[5] Undeniable evidence, spoken by Nixon himself and recorded on tape, revealed that he had obstructed justice and attempted to cover up the break-in.[3][6] This recorded conversation later became known as the Smoking Gun. After a series of court battles, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the President must hand over the tapes; he ultimately complied. With certainty of an impeachment in the House of Representatives and of a conviction in the Senate,[7][8] Nixon resigned ten days later, becoming the only US President to have resigned from office.

Answer 2

It all started with what might be called political espionage - a break-in to political headquarters

at the Watergate hotel. Worse than the break-in was the attempted cover-up afterward

reaching clear up to the President .

Answer 3

The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergateoffice complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.

Answer 4

Watergate refers to an incident where President Nixon's staff illegally taped some of the opponent's conversations, and Nixon helped to cover up what happened. The incident occurred at the Watergate Hotel.

Answer 5

5 men broke into the democratic national committee headquarters on July 17 1972.

Answer 6

It was a break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel that investigators discovered involved people very high in the Republican Party.