...Out of the events in American History that have occurred throughout the period, one of the ones that interests me the most is the Watergate Scandal. With that in mind, the book I chose to read is called Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon by Fred Emery. Although I had a basic knowledge of the scandal, I learned much by reading this book including those behind it and the coverup itself, in greater detail than I had known before. The book starts off by giving some background information including events that were transpiring during the Nixon administration. Many of these consist with Nixon’s handling of Vietnam and other events such as the Kent State Shootings and then the Pentagon Papers. Through this...
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...Running head: WATERGATE 1 WATERGATE DEVRY UNIVERSITY ONLINE. OCTOBER 20, 2014 WATERGATE 2 INTRODUCTION Watergate is a word that will forever be connected to the 37th President, Richard Nixon. What started out as a botched robbery at the Democratic Reelection headquarters would later become know for bringing down the Presidency. The American public would be able to see and hear firsthand what actually occurred in the Whitehouse behind closed doors, because of the national media that it created and the broadcasting of the Watergate Senate Hearings. This would bring to light the illegal activity that occurred during this time affecting many and changing politics as they were known. This paper will discuss the events that lead up to the Senate hearings and the fall of an American President. The careers that were made and the ones destroyed. The outcome and how it affected the American public and the future of politics. WATERGATE 3 WATERGATE At a time when the American population was dealing with the devastation of the Vietnam War and the loss of many loved ones a robbery at the Watergate hotel hit the papers. Many people did not know or even care what this meant, but later it would be found to affect the entire nation. On June 17, 1972 five men broke into the Democratic Reelection headquarters that was located at the Watergate hotel in Washington, DC (Watergate Info, 2012). They were caught with more...
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...Element I- Analysis of Website Validity Website title: Washington Post URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com This website is hosted by Washington Post, daily American newspaper founded in 1877. It hits 62 million links, if to exact search Washington Post. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press' investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal. They were the first American Press that researched this issue. Bob Woodward achieved a degree at Yale and Carl Bernstein started his degree at University of Maryland. They both were new investigational reporters at 1971. Both of them are reliable sources of information. Washington Post itself is a worldwide known number one American newspaper, and resources can be called reliable. The documents are provided as scanned version of original document from 1970 when Watergate...
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...Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century (HIST101) Colorado Technical University For this project I am going to discuss two different articles about President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. The first article is “The Washington Post Editorial Watergate: The unfinished business.” The other article that I will be discussing and comparing is one written by Dean Burch. “In Defense of Richard Nixon.” I will provide a brief summary of the two arguments as well as describe how the Watergate events changed American views in politics and politicians. I will also speculate how the events could have been different if the media and population during the Watergate scandal had today’s technology, an example being smart phones, and social media. Editorial: Watergate: The Unfinished Business In this Washington Post Editorial its opening sentence describes Nixon’s speech and actions as “far-reaching as they where in impact and effect” (1973, May 1). The editorial goes on to talk about how the President wants to turn the Watergate scandal over to the courts and let them sort it out. The writer then states that the President removed and added members of his cabinet, some of which were directly related to the Watergate scandal, and for the most part it was not a decision that the public supported. The article then goes on and makes the remark “But the remaking of the Nixon presidency will also depend on his willingness and capacity to bring not just new men, or even...
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...system in place. She KEEPS MODIFYING and MONITORING continuously. * *The case also stresses the importance of good team design similar to the C&S Wholesale Grocers* Lisa Benton Case Summary In my opinion, the Lisa Benton case study is really not that important (sorry). The major point is boss-subordinate relationships and, by extensions, interpersonal relationships period. Regardless, the story is kind of interesting (and not because it was the only case study in which major characters were more than likely getting it on). The summary is as follows: while Lisa Benton she attended Harvard Business School, worked as the first female manager for Right-Away stores, a company where she won accolades for her “roll-up-your sleeves” approach and charmed the president, Scott Kingston, so much that he offered her a full-time job at Right-Away stores after she graduated. However, she was also offered a job at Houseworld’s Care Division, appealing because of its classical and famous excellent marketing training. She chose to turn down the higher salary and a bigger position partly because of her worries of taking on too much responsibility and partly because of Right-Away’s rundown warehouse and lack of other female manager and, instead, joined Houseworld. At Houseworld, she was charmed by the friendly and professional people she met initially but ended up under Deborah Linton, who immediately made it clear she was biased against Harvard MBAs. The friendly people she had met...
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...went from a well-respected and populist president to a disgraced president that was nearly impeached. If Watergate was omitted from Nixon’s history most people would think he was a good president with a good track record and that he accomplished many things. Nixon left office to avoid being impeached; there was too much evidence against him and the media was having a field day with the evidence that was made public. Because a president has been given an enormous amount of power that is not give him the right to abuse the power. Therefore, any president or anyone for that matter should be accountable for the wrongdoings that they have done. Nixon should have been impeached. And probably would have because the numbers and the senate’s showed there was enough votes to impeach him. When Richard Nixon was pardoned by president Ford it did not set a good precedent for our nation. It became clear that a president or a politician can break the law and a successor can clear him of all his or her wrongdoings without any input from the judicial system. Although Nixon’s pardon was controversial it is rumored that Nixon made a deal to have resign only if he was given a full pardon (Herbers, 2010). It was sold to the public as the better thing to do for the country, but letting a person go that has clearly broken the law is not a good thing for our country (Dennison, 2012). The Watergate disgrace taught our country not to trust presidents or politicians for that matter. If our country learned...
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...The Watergate Break-in took place on June 17 of 1972, during Nixon’s Presidency. This was also an election year during which Nixon was running for a second term. James McCord was part of Nixon’s campaign party as chief security officer. James McCord was a major player in the Watergate Break-in, which took place in June of 1972. McCord was a former CIA employee that had started his own security agency after leaving his government role. He was then recruited to Nixon’s Campaign as a security consultant. He participated in the Watergate Break-in along with other campaign party members. McCord was the one in charge of bugging the room to try and collect any evidence that would help Nixon with his re-election for president. He is considered the one that botched the break-in by taping the doors in the Watergate building after they had been removed once by a security guard. This raised suspicion and the security guard called police which showed up in plain clothes and arrested 5 burglars that night. (Watergate Scandal Timeline, 2012) McCord was one of the first to take the fall, and was convicted on 6 counts. He claims he was told that Nixon and the white house knew about and approved the Watergate attempt. He also wrote a letter to the judge after being convicted but before his sentencing that he had committed perjury during his trial, because of pressure from John Dean and John Mitchell, among others, by pleading guilty. This led to more investigations into the people behind the...
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...The Watergate Scandal Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America from 1969 until 1974. Nixon completed his first term as President in 1973 and was re-elected for the position for the next four years. However, Nixon would have his time in the White House cut short by the series of events that occurred in the twenty-six months that followed the Watergate burglary. On June 17, 1972 five men, one White House employee and four Cubans, broke into the Watergate Office Building in Washington, DC in an attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee (DNC) office. The break in and the events that took place afterwards led to the resignation of Richard Milhous Nixon on August 8, 1974. The morning of June 18, Nixon was at his home in Key Biscayne, FL. when he read a headline about the Watergate break in. The idea was out of this world and Nixon did not believe what he was reading. Nixon dismissed the story as a political prank (Nixon 625-626). James McCord, Bernard Barker, Virgilo Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis had been arrested and charged with second-degree burglary by the Washington police (WHT 820). McCord, a former CIA officer, was employed by the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP) as a security consultant. Ironically McCord was supposed to prevent the very things he was doing to the DNC. Nixon telephoned Charles Colson, a special counsel to President Nixon, that evening to discuss the Watergate break in. Colson said...
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...Abstract Operation Just Cause was the invasion of Panama by US Forces in December of 1989. The mission of the US was to protect US lives and property, keep the canal open, conduct non-combatant evacuation operations in peaceful or hostile environments, and to develop and assist any government that would take over the current dictatorship that is in place. The operations were strategically formed to minimize casualties and damage to the local infrastructure by considering the operational environment. The accomplishment of the mission required US forces to contemplate on different tactics we were not accustomed to fighting. “Operation Just Cause represented a bold new era in American military force projection for speed, mass, and precision coupled with immediate public visibility, concern for collateral damage and early anticipation for post combat mandates”. This operation was a learning lesson for the US on how to conduct future operations by taking multiple events into planning considerations to ensure we cover all operational environments. Relations between Noriega's government and the United States had become increasingly tense through most of the 1980s. The last two years, however, had been especially difficult. One of Noriega's principal lieutenants charged the dictator with murder, drug trafficking, and election fraud. Riots broke out in Panama City, and the internal crisis grew inferior as the country's economy deteriorated. To deflect rising criticism...
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...The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, which was investigated by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, began in 1995, when America was surprised by a political sex scandal involving President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern in her early 20s (Schmidt, “Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie). When news of his affair became public in 1998, Clinton denied the sexual relationship before later admitting to “inappropriate intimate physical contact” with Monica Lewinsky. This led to the House of Representatives impeaching the president for obstruction of justice and perjury, but was later acquitted by the Senate (Waxman, "Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky Scandal-Timeline of Key Moments”). The Monica Lewinsky scandal was the first massive...
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...Watergate is widely believed to be the largest political scandal that the United States has seen. This scandal turned heads with the extensive association with the then United States President Richard Nixon, and many of his administration that aided in the execution and cover up of the events. The Watergate scandal of the 1970’s proved to be one of the most significant political scandal in history which included lies, breaking and entering, cover-ups and the first ever resignation of a United States President from office. The Watergate scandal events originated in 1969, with the composition of President Nixon’s enemies list. The list had a collection of names of opponents and potential opponents that have the possibility of causing trouble...
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...The Hobbesian theme of Greed and dishonesty is also seen in the Harding Administration during the Teapot Dome Scandal of 1923. In 1912, Taft decided that the oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California would be set aside for the US Navy to use. When Albert Fall was appointed Secretary of Interior under Harding, asked the Secretary of Navy, Edwin Denby if he could lease some of the reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company. While legal at the time to do so, it was still pretty suspicious that Fall was gaining huge amounts of money from these leases. Finally, On 14th April, 1922, The Wall Street Journal announced that Fall had leased Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair and as a result, senators such as Robert La Follette demanded...
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...Nixon v. United States 506 U.S. 224 (1993) Facts Walter Nixon Jr., a U.S. District Court judge in Mississippi, was investigated for his involvement for trading an oil and gas deal with an entrepreneur in exchange for his intervention in the entrepreneur son’s indictment for drug trafficking. Nixon was brought before a grand jury and testified that he did not intervene with the son’s case. He later stood trial in federal court for committing perjury during his grand jury testimony and accepting an illegal gratuity. He was acquitted of the illegal gratuity change but convicted of two counts of perjury. The Judicial Conference of the United States recommended Nixon’s impeachment. The House voted to impeach. The Senate invoked Impeachment rule...
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...Out of all the scandals we went over this semester, the Watergate scandal is my favorite. The Watergate scandal happened during Nixon’s presidency when his organization called CREEP hired five men (the plumbers) to break into the Watergate to wire it in order to spy on his opposing opponents. The plumbers were arrested before they could successfully finish their job because a security guard seen tape on the door latch outside of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. President Nixon told the media that the White House didn’t have any involvement into the break in and told his lawyer, John Dean, to cover up any connection of the break in to the White House. The event that shocked me the most during this scandal is the Saturday Night Massacre because President Nixon ordered the Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and his Deputy, William Ruckelshaus, to fire Archibald Cox (special prosecutor) but they refused so President Nixon requested for them to resign. President Nixon got Cox fired because Cox gave him a subpoena that required him to reveal the tapes in court that he is hiding that have information on it about the break in. This event showed an evil side of President Nixon, that was very shocking to me....
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...The story of Edward Snowden is perhaps the biggest and most famous intelligence breach in United States history. The 29-year-old computer programmer who made headlines in 2013 was working for the National Security Agency through subcontractor Booz Allen in the NSA’s office in Oahu, Hawaii when he became disturbed and uncomfortable with some of the NSA’s data. He began collecting top-secret documents regarding NSA domestic surveillance practices. These documents confirmed unsettling spy activity against American citizens. The story of how Snowden fled the U.S. and leaked the documents to the press is shocking and exciting, like something only seen in movies. After watching a Frontline report on the story, a TED Talk with one of the reporters who worked with Snowden, and the documentary made about Snowden’s story, my eyes have been opened to a truth I did not fully grasp until now. In this response, I will summarize more of the Snowden story and discuss the role the press plays in our democracy. “I’m willing to sacrifice [my former life] because I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building,” (Biography, 2015) Snowden said in an interview in Hong Kong where he escaped to with the classified and damning government documents. Upon his escape he began contact with carefully selected journalists, including Glenn Greenwald from...
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