...just beginning their career for The Washington Post. Through the use of good reporting, investigating skills, and with the help of a secret source known at the time as “Deep throat,” Bernstein and Woodward we’re able to unravel the biggest presidential scandal in the history of the United States, The Richard Nixon Watergate scandal. Without the investigation of Bernstein and Woodward, The Watergate Scandal may have never been brought to light. The book chronicles everything from when Bernstein and Woodward were given an assignment to cover a burglary at the Watergate complex in Washington DC, to the events that led up to Nixon’s State of the Union address about one year from when the Watergate Scandal started to unravel. The book starts off with Bernstein and Woodward getting assigned to a story about a burglary at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington DC. The two were not overly excited to be assigned to the story, as it was meant to be a filler story for the paper, but something in particular struck the two of them about the story (Bernstein, 14). The burglary took place at the Democratic National Convention at the Watergate Complex. The burglary resulted in the arrest of five men who were charged with breaking and entering. Bernstein and Woodward went above and beyond their reporting duties and thought that there was something up with the burglary, especially because it occurred at the Democratic National Convention, so they continued to investigate the story. As...
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...Tate Gentry 1/6/13 Government All of The President’s Men We watched the movie “All The President’s men” and it was a movie made about the Watergate Burglary. The Watergate scandal was one of most controversial government scandals in the 1970’s. In 1972, before the election took place Nixon was going to do whatever it took to get re-elected. He was involved in the Watergate break-in. “Plumbers” were sent into the DNC offices to gather information to help Nixon in the presidential campaign battle with the democrats. Wiretaps, bugs and copies of the democrat’s campaign strategies would be great help. Nixon denied any involvement in Watergate, but interestingly did everything he could to block any investigation into his involvement. He kept his involvement hidden from the general public until after he was re-elected. Much like president Obama did with the attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi. Nixon’s presidency fell apart when slowly bits of proof of his involvement began showing up beginning at the trial of the Watergate burglars. To try to help, Nixon’s four advisors resigned. His vice president Spiro Agnew had to resign not only because of Nixon’s wrong doings, but his own problems excepting bribes while governor of Maryland. The end for Nixon was when his conversation tapes were asked for and impeachment proceedings were started. What made it even harder for the judge was the fact that when the tapes were being played different sections were missing...
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...put a legal end to segregation in the South but racial discrimination continued to live on, making voting for African Americans impossible. When a legal Act, passed through congress, fails to protect those it sought to defend corruption is clearly present somewhere within the issue. Alan J. Pakula’s 1976 film, All the President’s Men, is considered to be one of the best political films that has ever been made thus far. This film does not exist only as a popular piece of cinema, but as a key component of the shift of American politics after it was released. All the President’s Men has become an unofficial documentation of the actual events that took place as part of the Watergate scandal. The film taught politicians a lesson in what the people will believe when they see it on a screen. It is argued that the largest impact...
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...secret plan. The Watergate scandal rocked the whole nation of America, and to a great extent it also shocked the world. The center of this controversy Richard Nixon was the most powerful man in the world. The president of the most powerful nation on earth was under trial here. Nixon’s aides were charged with different crimes in connection with the break- in at the Watergate building. President Nixon had resigned from his office while insisting on his innocence of the crime being attributed to him. Investigators couldn’t find the “smoking gun” that would point to the president as the mastermind or as a part of a grand conspiracy in the break-in. It is also an important to note that the public’s access to this information and their following reaction that really helped to understand the real issue. The question as to how did the Watergate scandal changed America? There are...
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...On July 17, 1972, Nixon’s administrators broke into the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel. The president’s officials had success in wiretapping phones and stealing secret documents from the Democratic National Committee, which began the Watergate Scandal. Nixon and his operatives had secret recordings at the White house where it would remain undiscovered by investigators. With the tension and suspense rising in the case, Nixon and his officials were becoming more fearful of what would be discovered by...
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...17, 1972, after midnight, a security guard at the watergate building in Washington D.C, identified as Frank Wills, found security tapes on some of the unlocked building doors. Wills did not pay attention to the tape until an hour later, where he found the same doors now blocked, and went on to call the police. After the arrival of the police, five men equipped with spy devices with a value of about 3500 dollars were found in the building of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and were immediately arrested. While the intruders were awaiting federal prosecution, the FBI began an investigation on the incident. Thanks to the report of two Washington Post journalists, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, there were suggestions that led to the connection between the five men, who were now awaiting trial in federal court, and the re-election campaign of the current president Richard Nixon. Unsurprisingly, the White House refused this possibility and denied any connection between the five individuals and President Nixon. In November 1972 Richard Nixon was re-elected as president of the United States of America even though the connection with the stealing of Watergate documents was confirmed months before. The Senate voted on February 1973 for the creation of a Select Committee on...
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...party. At this time there was the environmentalist movement, women's suffrage, minorities fighting for equal rights, and the Watergate Scandal. For years to come after this the American people would have have trust issues with the government and the republican party as the next elected president after Nixon was Jimmy Carter who was a democrat. In (Document C) it says “ The impact of such an ordeal would be felt throughout the world, and it would have its effect on the lives of all Americans for many years to come.” It also says “Impeachment of a President is a remedy of last resort; it is the most solemn act of...
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...American institutions are effected by crisis’s that undermines their credibility, another role we see and learn from in films is journalism “journalists are often called upon to make decisions based on a morally mature interpretation of principles rather than any specific code of conduct,” films gives dramatic life to struggles over those principles. In “All the Presidents Men” we clearly see that the US government and staff are not honest and trustworthy and there credibility is undermined and under investigation by the press. Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation into the Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon's eventual resignation. The free press myth is built upon the tenet that journalism can and should report truth that citizens may rationally act upon in making democracy work. That tenet underlies both libertarian and social responsibility models of the press. Classical libertarianism did not assume that journalism had a specific duty to present truth, but did see freedom of the press as key to a self-righting marketplace of ideas. The film encapsulates what media scholar Michael Schudson has called “the central myth of American journalism,” representing for the press “a charter, an inspiration, and a reason for being large enough to justify the constitutional protections that journalism enjoys. “A whole fabric of deception arose”...
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... October 19, 2013 Essay Assignment # 1 Ever since the society started to believe that we needed a democracy type of government and a president to lead, we have had over forty men lead us. They have not always been the perfect person for the job but they have tried at least. Some of them have made mistakes and some have done a great job. This is all irrefutable and some can even be found in the twenty one laws of it. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership are a set of laws that are supposed to define the way that you lead and give you a conscious opinion of the type of leader you are. In the laws they go over such things as the law of the lid, navigation, influence, process, addition, and solid ground. Under these laws, they have different steps in which the leading is different. Over the course of the years, we have had a lot of Presidents and a lot of different leading styles among them, some of them being good and some of them being nowhere near good. But we had to live with them and they have to live with themselves. In the movie Fog of War, Robert McNamara tries to go over the eleven lessons that he learned from being under the President of John F. Kennedy. McNamara lends us his knowledge of what went wrong during those years. During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but...
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...Richard Milhous Nixon Nick Bennett Perspectives on the Presidency Dr. Kane 4 April 2011 Richard Milhous Nixon, an introverted man in an extroverted environment, was a brilliant but flawed individual. Described as having a “light side” and “dark side,” Nixon routinely displayed vindictive and insecure qualities that were very detrimental to his presidency. Nixon was a man of many complexities and contradictions that seemed to all stem from his troublesome childhood. Nixon excelled in foreign affairs as he broke the ice with numerous nations and possessed a remarkable knowledge. He was an innovative thinker and developed intricate strategies that would give him a bold portrayal. Although he had an undeniable amount of knowledge, he displayed many negative characteristics within his personality and views in regard to his power. Spending long nights alone, Nixon would evaluate problems, correlate the information and develop a very plausible solution. Regarding Richard Nixon and the notion of presidential power, he implemented some beneficial uses, however several examples of abuse. He would sometimes even act on issues without seeking approval or guidance from congress. Nixon used unjustified means in order to accomplish his tasks, thus sparking much debate concerning the extraordinary power of the United States President. Nixon’s personality can be described as paradoxical and flawed. His childhood was difficult to say...
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...McCulloch v. Maryland Question: Did the Unite States Congress have the authority to establish a national bank? And also whether or not the Maryland law to tax the bank was interfering with congressional power? The Necessary and Proper Clause, also known as section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution is what is in question. Background: In the year 1816, the U.S. Congress created the Second Bank of America. This was a national bank, and was not a bank considered to be a local Maryland bank. In 1818, the state of Maryland set up legislation to tax the bank. The cashier of The Second Bank of America refused to pay the tax. Section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution is in question here because it is a matter of how much power does the Necessary and Proper Clause give congress. Decision: The Court voted 7 for McCulloch and 0 for Maryland. The Supreme court ruled that Congress maintained...
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...liberalism that had imploded. New Deal liberalism was ill equipped to accommodate the new cultural and political demands released by the Civil Rights Movement, feminism and the counterculture, all of which were exacerbated by the growing disillusionment about the war in Vietnam. For a period, New Deal liberalism enjoyed relatively widespread support but, as Eric Foner argues, ‘by the middle of the [1960s], New Deal liberalism was in retreat,’ not so much by its conservative opponents, like Barry Goldwater, as by new forms of liberalism. The increasing visibility of the counterculture exposed a deep schism in 1960s America that had once largely supported the liberal government. The arguments of Angela Y. Davis, namely that the high instance of sexual violence in capitalist countries contracted with its virtual absence in the socialist world and the disproportionate prosecution of African-American men for sexually violent crimes indicated that racism was deeply embedded in American institutions, coupled with Eisen-Bergman’s claim that it was the unwritten policy of the US Military Command to systematically encourage rape, illustrates the growing concern with government’s capacity to deal with new cultural and political demands. This disillusionment was compounded by the Watergate scandal, which ‘altered the Americans understood politics and the presidency, the way they conceived, investigated, and understood the wrongdoing by government officials.’ Conservatism thus emerged because...
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...Clause 18 of the Constitution. Many of the states were opposed to the creation of such a bank because of these banks competed with other banks within the states, and because they felt that the government was exerting too much power. Maryland, in an attempt to get rid of the Baltimore branch, passed a law that taxed any banks chartered outside of the state of Maryland. James McCulloch, the cashier of the bank at the time, refused to pay the tax. The State of Maryland took him to court, arguing that since the government could tax state banks, the state could tax federal banks, and that the government did not have the power to create a national bank. McCulloch argued that the creation of such a bank made it possible for the government to fulfill all its powers. While both a Maryland court and the Maryland Court of Appeals decided in favor of Maryland, McCulloch continued to appeal and was finally heard by the Supreme Court. (3) Opinion The Court decided unanimously in favor of McCulloch, stating that Congress held powers not explicitly outlined in the Constitution, but rather implied, and that Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution allowed the creation of the Second Bank of United States, and that “the constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are supreme. . .they control the constitution and laws of the respective states, and cannot be controlled by them." The Court decided that the laws that Congress made were above the laws of the states. Gibbons v...
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...The Legacy of the Vietnam War The Legacy of the Vietnam War University of Phoenix The Legacy of the Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1965-1975) was fought between the North and South Vietnam. The North was called Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the South was the Republic of Vietnam which was supported by the United States. The Vietnam War brought so many mixed emotions, fear from communism, and many lost lives. The Vietnam War was also very costly the war had spending over $140 billion dollars, the war seemed to start with good intentions that seemed to get lost in the lengthy battle for the North’s freedom, unity, and hopes that America would put a stop to the continuing communistic presence from taking over in Indonesia. In this paper we will review the following: · Nixon’s foreign policy team (Kissinger) and the team’s actions · Nixon Strategy · Détente · Election of 1972 · Antiwar demonstrations and marches on the White House · The Silent Majority · Cambodia “invasion” · Kent State · Vietnamization and Laotian incursion · The My Lai Massacre · SALT Treaty I · The diplomatic strategies of the Paris Accord · Prisoners of War (POWs) · Vietnam Syndrome · Specific political and military legacies of the Vietnam War, both in America and globally Nixon’s Foreign Policy and Actions and Strategy Looking to end the war Nixon made several speeches to the public urging...
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...information in mitigation." Skilling stood up. Enron, the company he had built into an energy-trading leviathan, had collapsed into bankruptcy almost exactly five years before. In May, he had been convicted by a jury of fraud. Under a settlement agreement, almost everything he owned had been turned over to a fund to compensate former shareholders. He spoke haltingly, stopping in mid-sentence. "In terms of remorse, Your Honor, I can't imagine more remorse," he said. He had "friends who have died, good men." He was innocent—"innocent of every one of these charges." He spoke for two or three minutes and sat down. Judge Lake called on Anne Beliveaux, who worked as the senior administrative assistant in Enron's tax department for eighteen years. She was one of nine people who had asked to address the sentencing hearing. "How would you like to be facing living off of sixteen hundred dollars a month, and that is what I'm facing," she said to Skilling. Her retirement savings had been wiped out by the Enron bankruptcy. "And, Mr. Skilling, that only...
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