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watergate
Title: watergate
Category: History
Details: Words: 1582 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
watergate
Watergate Scandal
Watergate was the name of the biggest political scandal in the history of the United States.
It included various illegal activities constructed and carried out to help reelect President Richard
Nixon in the 1972 presidential elections. Watergate included burglary, wire tapping, violations of
campaign financing laws, and sabotage and attempted use of government agencies to harm
political opponents. It also involved a cover-up of conduct. There were about forty people
charged with crimes in …showed first 75 words of 1582 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1582 total…of the Watergate crisis. The Watergate burlary and the scandals associated
with the burlary were about more than Nixon’s fall from power. Watergate was about a seamy
side of politics that before the scandal most Americans scarcely imagined existed. Watergate was
about ambition overriding good judgement and fair play; but it was also about a political culture
and political system that often rewarded just such ambition. Watergate was contradictory,
controversial, captivating, and ultimately, compelling.
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