Watergate Scandal

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

They Had TenMillion Dollars When They Got Arrested After The Investagation

Right. If the president was above the law that would make him a king. A democracy doesn’t have a king or dictator so he is NOT above the law. Nixon tried to claim this as president when he sent the burglars into the Watergate building and it was proven he WASN’T above the law.

Larry O'Brien was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. His offices were the target of the famous break in. Richard Nixon eventually resigned from the Presidency because of this.

rufus edmisten was apart of the watergate committee and is still today

Yes, Virginia, there is a musical about Richard M. Noxon and the Watergate scandal . . . . or at least there was once upon a time. In the early fall of 1981, auditions for a show, which may or may not have been finished at the time (though the scripts from which we read appeared to be complete), were conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, on the Alliance Theater stage. It was to be called Watergate, the Musical. Those for whom actors and singers performed, whose names are lost to history, indicated that they planned a full equity production that would open "out of town" and then proceed to Broadway, sometime in 1982-83. How nearly those expectations were ultimately met is unknown but, subsequently, a woman named Cybelle Pomeroy claimed to have writen a musical play called Watergate! The Musical. She held auditions in Baltimore, but may or may not have managed to get the production on stage.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did not make significant personal profits directly from their reporting on the Watergate scandal. However, their work led to the publication of the book "All the President's Men," which became a bestseller and was later adapted into a successful film, generating substantial royalties and income for both journalists. The true impact of their reporting was more about its influence on journalism and politics than direct financial gain.

A burglary of Democratic Party headquarters