Watergate Scandal

Charles Colson was a so called supervisor of the Watergate affairs. He put together the "missions" but did not actually participate. For this very reason, Colson was tried under the charges or obstruction of justice.

Many people felt that the government, particularly the Presidency, had betrayed them.

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One of the two events that caused Americans to become disillusioned with the Federal government during the first half of the 70's was the energy crisis. The second thing was the growing concern about the environment.

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Former FBI assistant director Mark Felt was "Deep Throat" a confidential informant who fed information to Woodward & Bernstein.

The Pacific Scandal was about bribes being accepted by members of the government for the national railroad contract. The scandal took place in Canada in 1873.

Nixon sought to invoke "executive privilege". Executive privilege isthe power claimed by thePresident of the United Statesand other members of theexecutive branchto resist certainsubpoenasand other interventions by thelegislativeandjudicial branchesof government. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned explicitly in theUnited States Constitution, but theSupreme Court of the United Statesruled it to be an element of theseparation of powersdoctrine, and/or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity

TheSupreme Courtconfirmed the legitimacy of this doctrine inUnited States v. Nixon, but only to the extent of confirming that there is a qualified privilege. Once invoked, a presumption of privilege is established, requiring the Prosecutor to make a "sufficient showing" that the "Presidential material" is "essential to the justice of the case."(418 U.S. at 713-14).Chief JusticeBurgerfurther stated that executive privilege would most effectively apply when the oversight of the executive would impair that branch's national security concerns. In the case of Watergate, national security was NOT the issue at hand.

It was irrefutable proof that America is a much darker place than politicians would have us believe. It showed us that there is more to America than the ideals of freedom and democracy that are instilled in all of us from birth.

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no it did not increase it. the scandal brought about mistrust of the government and made citizens think they had no say in the government. this can be related to the Vietnam war, the whitewater scandal or the Iran-contra

David Young - Watergate - was born in 1936.

Ronald Reagan was not directly involved in the Watergate scandal.

Nixon had kept a series of secret tapes of his meetings

Richard Nixon was never convicted of anything involving the Watergate matter. After Nixon resigned, President Gerald Ford gave Nixon a presidential pardon for any and all acts he committed during his presidency in that matter. Thus, he was spared from even being accused of any criminal action, much less being convicted of such activity. Aside from criminal prosecution, Nixon also escaped impeachment by resigning the presidency before formal articles of impeachment could be voted on by the full House of Representatives even though a House committee had voted to recommend impeachment.

In the years following Vietnam and Watergate, the American public and the media developed a general cynicism about public officials that still exists today.

The office at the Watergate that was burglarized belonged to the Democratic National Committee. The Republican Party was looking for information that they could use to to their advantage in the 1972 elections.

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The media during Watergate served as a powerful watchdog against lies, corruption, illegal acts, and abuse of power in government, especially the Executive Branch.

The media is attempting again in 2017 to be watchdogs with all 3 branches of government, but in particular, with the Executive Branch and President Trump.

Most scholars believe that President Nixon, himself, was the one who headed up and approved of this plan.

The sentencing of the Watergate burglars led to Gerald Ford's pardon of President Nixon.

Richard M. Nixon .

Richard M Nixon, in 1974

iran contra= national security issue