Watergate
Watergate is the common name for the political scandal and constitutional crisis that began with the June 17, 1972, arrest of five burglars who broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. The crisis ended on Aug. 9, 1974 when the 39th president, Richard M. Nixon resigned. The Watergate Scandal was an incident in American history that changed the role of the presidency in the United States. The situation began in early June of 1972, when burglars in Nixon’s campaign committee broke into offices of the Democratic Party. In a complex chain of events, officials that were high within Nixon’s staff were connected to the burglary and consequently used illegal and immoral means to keep the burglary from being fully investigated. It was these actions by Nixon’s staff known as the “cover-up”, Nixon took office in 1969, after eight years of Democratic rule. Vice president under Eisenhower before his unsuccessful run for the presidency in 1960, Nixon embraced politics, but without the passion of President Johnson. Distant often appearing ill at ease, he was always
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