On June 17th 1972, five men were arrested for burglary at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. At first it wasn't a controversy, but reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began to investigate it for the Washington Post. Through their reporting they found that the burglary was committed by members of the Committee to Re-elect the President (C.R.E.E.P.).

Their reporting put pressure on the White House and on April 30th 1973, Nixon accepted the resignation of H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff, John Ehrlichman, Special assistant on domestic affairs, and announced the dismissal of US Attorney John Dean. In May 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities began hearings on the Watergate break in and the Presidents involvement.

US Attorney John Dean was a key figure in the Watergate scandal. Dean's testimony during televised hearings in the U.S.

In contrast, when President Clinton's sex sandal with a White House intern occurred, it was the front page article of every news paper and magazine in the country, the lead story on every National, regional, and local news broadcast, and it was the topic of conversation on talk shows for over a year.

In conclusion Watergate has changed the opinion of the public dramatically. Before the scandal the American people trusted the government and felt that they were in good hands. Now that the Watergate scandal occurred people feel different towards the government. The American people feel that they are being lied to and cheated out of they're money.

These movies reflect how the people felt after the Watergate scandal. The public feared government conspiracy because there just was one. The Candidate and The Conversation were both a derivative of Watergate. Like the Watergate sandal, the people in The Candidate used money to try and buy an election and succeeded, as Nixon did. The Conversation was derivative because the people were listening to and reading about Nixon's recordings, Hackman's character, recording people's conversations, played off of people's fears as did Three Days of the Condor.

In the 1960's when John F. Kennedy was President, his sex scandal with movie star Marilyn Monroe was not investigated at all. Neither the press nor the public knew about it or cared about it. It was never in newspapers, magazines, television or any type of media. The public didn't have an opinion on it and it didn't give them a different look on him as a president . It was never made public until years after when they were both deceased.

Instead of facing an impeachment, Nixon resigned on August 9th. A month later his successor, Gerald Ford, excused him from all of the crimes he committed while in office. After that Nixon was unable to get federally prosecuted (Crockett 13)

The most recent example would be Bill Clintons' sex scandal. The hearing was televised on every network and cable. The public doesn't trust the government like they used to so they demand to see it live on television. They want to see it on live television because they don'

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