Watergate Scandal

1976

The Watergate scandal began on 17 June 1972, with a burglarly at the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington, DC.

The Plumbers was an informal name for a covert White House Special Investigation Unit in the Nixon Administration that was tasked with stopping leaks to the news media such as the Pentagon Papers. Its members got involved with illegal activities like the Watergate break-in while working for CREEP (The Committee to Re-elect the President).

Members of the Plumbers included E. Howard Hunt, Charles Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy.

Well, since the Watergate Scandal happened in 1972, and WWII ended 1945. I think you should be able to go out there and tell the world the WWII happened first. =)

The Watergate scandal implicated former President Richard Nixon for his involvement in the breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. Money found on the perpetrators was connected to a slush fund for the re-election of Nixon. Nixon often recorded conversations that took place in his office and was ordered by the US Supreme Court to hand over the tapes which subsequently led to his resignation.

It would probably be G. Gordan Liddy

The 2 reporters, "Bob Woodward" and "Carl Bernstein," who worked for "The Washington Post"

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Richard Nixon

The principle that was weakened was Congressional Immunity. The Watergate scandal effectively reduced the protections provided by the Speech and Debate Clause.

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They won the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting and the George Polk award for their work on the Watergate scandal. Their paper, the Washington Post, won a Pulitzer prize for their articles on Watergate.

the 5 men were wiretaps

Richard Nixon was never arrested due to Watergate. He resigned & was subsequently pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.

Nixon did this because he wanted to record the Democrat's conversations. He would use these to find out the plans and ultimately get re-elected.

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All were tried and convicted. The masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and James McCord,Jr, . served prison time of 33 months and 2 months respectively. The burglars , Gonzalez, Barker, Martinez and Sturgis, respectively spent 13months, 18 months, 15 months, and 10 months in prison.

The shell scandal was an invention made by the British commander to help in the war.

Some people were caught breaking into the Democratic Headquarters located in the Watergate Hotel and these people talked about who hired them to break in.

The White House tapes, together with the unexplained gaps, were probably the most damaging. Impeachment charges are never actually brought forth and a trial was never heard, so it hard to say for sure what evidence might have been the most damaging or even what further evidence might be uncovered or revealed.

It turned out that the arrest of five men on 17 June 1972 who were trying to install electronic listening devices in the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC was just one of several surreptitious activities sponsored by the Nixon Administration. Nixon’s aides had also engineered the burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist’s office to try and obtain damaging information about Daniel Ellsberg, a Defense Department employee who leaked the Pentagon Papers, revealing the activities of the administration regarding Vietnam. The press and public began to view Nixon’s administration and activities as “the Imperial Presidency” because Nixon and his advisors became so arrogant in their possession of power. They seemed to believe they were above the law. Nixon even went so far as to claim that if something was done by the president, that means it was not illegal. The public began to distrust the power that had been amassed in the office of the Executive. The separation of powers did not seem to be working as designed by the Founding Fathers. Others saw the resignation of the president of confirmation that the Constitution was working, and even the President was not above the law. The Watergate Affair also served as a civics lesson to the public. Many began to pay close attention to their representatives and to begin to question the leaders in Washington and in local and state offices. An immediate effect was a closer examination of the activities of the executive office by the legislative and judicial branches.

Why does any phrase or word get fashionable? It just caught the mood of the time.

In early 1972 Mitchell resigned as attorney general to become director of the Committee to Re-elect the President. He approved giving Liddy and his coconspirators $250,000 for the break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Office Building in Washington. Mitchell's public downfall began in September 1972 when The Washington Post quoted sources involved in the Watergate investigation as saying that Mitchell, while attorney general, had "personally controlled a secret Republican fund used to gather information about the Democrats." After the Watergate story exploded, and Nixon resigned, several high officials, including Mitchell, were convicted of conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice.

It was the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon had Archibald Cox fired.

The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Note that Watergate itself does not meet the -gate construction rule, as the scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965