The Watergate Scandal

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Term Paper Title	The Watergate Scandal
# of Words	1900
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	7.6

The Watergate Scandal

The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by the President and his
staff, who were found to spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted
illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds. On June 17,
1972, The Washington Post published a small story. In this story the reporters
stated that five men had been arrested breaking into the headquarters of the
Democratic National Committee. The headquarters was located in a Washington,
D.C., building complex called Watergate. These burglars were carrying enough
equipment to wiretap telephones and take pictures of papers.

The Washington Post had two reporters who researched deep into the story. There
names were Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, they discovered that one of the
suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House
official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected
that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials.

In a press conference on August in 1972, President Nixon said that nobody on
the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted
Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial
four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national
scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced from office.

Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of
illegal activities in the Nixon administration. Nixon and his staff were found
to have spied on and harassed political opponents, planned contributions to the
campaign, and tried to cover-up their illegal acts. These crimes that they did
were called the Watergate scandal, named after the building that it happened.

For years Nixon was carrying on the crimes and they were not noticed until now.
1969 was the really date in which Watergate was really beginning. It all
started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list". Nixon
had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and actors. Most
of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war. Nixon's aides
formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought were enemies. He
also had agents find out secret information that would harm them.

Nixon was always worried about govt. Employees revealing secret info. To the
news paper or any sort of press. The presidents agents helped him by
wiretapping phone lines that belonged to ...

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