Exercise 4 from Maverick

The Watergate scandal occurred during Nixon's presidency. Nixon was elected the 37^th president in 1969. The Watergate scandal took place because Nixon was trying to find out the plans of the other party in order to better his chance of being reelected. The idea behind Watergate was to wiretap the phones of the Democratic Party. The only reason that they were caught was because the wiretaps didn’t work properly and had to be replaced. The guard noticed that the locks were tampered with and called the cops. Nixon denied knowledge and that his staff had nothing to do with it. Nixon tried to hide the tapes of the recordings in order to cover up. He also lied in court which is a huge crime. Reporters were trying to find out more about Watergate but couldn’t. Two reporters got some help from a mysterious insider that had information on this scandal. The tapes were eventually found and lead to a political war between congress and Nixon. Nixon gave three speeches throughout this scandal. The first was to inform the departure of a few people that were involved in the scandal. The second was his speech saying he wasn’t involved. The third included some of the tape from the wiretaps which made Nixon decide to resign. Nixon was to be impeached when it was discovered that he was involved but decided to step down to avoid impeachment. Later on Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon so that he wouldn’t have to deal with the after effects of the Watergate scandal.

Watergate hotel where the name comes from

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Nixon announcing his resignation

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