Watergate 2
In the 1970s there was an ordeal much like what we the public of the 1990s are going through. It was called Watergate and it divided the American public. In my opinion President Nixon had no prior knowledge of the scandal and tried to cover up any wrongdoings. Mistakes were made, words were said, and we lost a potentially great President.On June 17, 1972, Bernard L. Barker, James W. McCord, Grand Fiorini, Eugenio Martinez, and Raul Godoy were seized at gunpoint. They were carrying cameras and surveillance equipment, which they had been using when they broke into the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Complex. An office was found burglarized, with files opened and ceiling tiles removed. They were reportedly linked to the CIA at one time or another. Officials started to see a link to Nixon also. His campaign manager denied any involvement in the burglary. (Watergate 11) On July 1, a former White House consultant by the name of E. Howard Hunt Jr. was linked to two of the men arrested. Hunt's name and home telephone number were found in the address books of the men. The FBI began a sweeping manhunt to find him. As it turns out Hunt and the two men had previously been business partners. (Evans
Nixon admitted to approving a plan for expanded intelligence gathering operations with the knowledge that certain aspects of it were clearly illegal. In his May 22 statement on the Watergate affair, President Nixon had acknowledged establishment of an interagency committee for better intelligence operations. However, he said, the committee was scrapped after Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover voiced opposition. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said on July 2, that President Nixon would speak out on charges made against him in the Watergate case. He was scheduled to do so after the select Senate committees completed the first phase of hearings, focusing on the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up. It wasn't expected to be over with until the fall. (Schudson 135)
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Approximate Word count = 1177
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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