Essays on Watergate Scandal

Introduction

On June 17, 1972, Americans woke up to the news of several burglars arrested in the Democratic Nation Committee (DNC) offices located in the Watergate building. The robbery, later named the Watergate scandal, was highly linked to President Richard Nixon because he took part in protecting people suspected of committing the crime. Several media houses and bloggers covered the scandal giving different views on the issue. News coverage of the Watergate scandal impacted the views of Americans on politics and politicians differently. The following essay analyzes two articles that described the conduct of President Nixon regarding the Watergate scandal ...

Introduction

Watergate was a controversial scandal that rocked the USA in the 1970s, following a burglary attempt at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters located in Watergate Office Complex in Washington D.C. and the alleged involvement of the then US president Richard Nixon in the cover-up. The Watergate scandal marked a historic significance in the US politics as it showed how politicians abused their power to get what they desired. The Watergate scandal brought to the surface an array of secret and illegal activities conducted by the members of the Nixon administration. These activities involved the adoption of unethical means ...

Explain the main changes that occurred after WWII

World War II produced major changes in the way the main economic and military powers related. The United States had seized the opportunity to build its network of international allies, and President Truman made efforts to increase the spread of capitalism and defeat to communism and another socialist movement. The post-war era brought a lot of success to American corporate companies, a factor that increased government resources in the ensuing boom of the 1950’s. Same way, military expenditure increased by double digits between 1947 to 1960, and part of the money was used to offer military support to ...

(Teacher)

The recent history of the United States is filled with conflict against other nations, peace negotiations, and cooperation within the country in a constant struggle for growth. After almost 250 years since becoming an independent nation, this country is still young and establishing its culture. Not only does the United States have a political history of conflict, it struggles to keep children from poverty and seems to fail miserably.

Pacific Relations with Vietnam.

The Vietnam War was originally between North Vietnam with support from its allies who were communist and the South Vietnam who wanted to avoid communist and had the United ...

(Insturctor’s name) Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All The President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Print.

Book review

Introduction “All the president’s men” is a detective book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who are at the same time its main characters. The story covers the period from 1972 to 1974, and depicts the way The Watergate Scandal was developed, investigated, and resolved. Bernstein and Woodward were working for The Washington Post as reporters, and were directly involved in the Watergate issue investigation. Thus, apart from the fact that the book is a detective, it is ...

Even though he left public life more than 40 years ago, Richard Nixon is still a controversial figure. He had a meteoric rise in politics, and an even steeper fall. Nixon was considered to be a complex and transitional politician (Miller Center of Public Affairs 19). He had a number of positive accomplishments during his presidency, especially in foreign policy, but his methods were often less than completely ethical.

Biography

Richard Milhous Nixon was born January 9, 1913, the second of five children, in Yorba Linda, CA, a small farming community (“Richard Nixon Biography” 1). His father was a failed ...

The human beings are considered as the most intelligent creature in this universe. It is hard to measure the capability and brilliance of the human mind (Voronin et al. 1139-1146). The optimistic factor in human intelligence and brilliance is increasing with the passage of time, and this eventually results in different kinds of innovations around the world. Philosophers and scientists around the globe are making different kinds of claims regarding the development of human intelligence and their claims revolve around different kinds of theories. Due to the complexity in the theories, it is always difficult to believe in one ...

During Watergate Scandal

<<Author>> <<Date>> During Watergate Scandal Step1. The two editorial articles about President Nixon and the Watergate scandal are really contradictory. The Washington Post article is a more scathing account and revelation of the corruption that occurred during the scandal. It is highly critical of the Presidency and almost implicates Nixon in the scandal and doubts his actions to build credibility in his government (Washington Post, 1973). The article doubts the intentions of the President and is accusative, in terms of the way the President seeks to turn over the investigation to the courts, ...

The Great Gatsby

Movies are often a reflection of the political and social changes that are occurring at the time of their creation. Movies typically reflect the views and attitudes of society and do so in a way that is dramatic and captivating. This holds true for The Great Gatsby, both during the time period in which it was written as well as during the 1970s when the motion picture was released. Written by F. Scotts Fitzgerald, the story takes place during the Roaring Twenties, a time in history many refer to as a period of great transformation and wealth. Following World ...

Post-Watergate Public opinion

The Watergate scandals lasted between 1972 and 1974. The scandals included harassing and bugging offices of political opponents, and other illegal activities by people within President Nixon’s administration. President Nixon’s administration attempted to cover-up the scandals and tried to interfere with the FBI investigations about government’s involvement in the scandals. Nixon resigned in 1974 when his involvement in the cover-up of the scandals within his administration became apparent (Bernstein, 2005). Following the Watergate scandal, the American public henceforth became skeptical regarding the federal government. Consequently, an assertive congress campaign finance reform legislation and began to ...

Question 1

The U.S had a strained relationship with the South Vietnamese president. The U.S opposed Diem leadership since it supported nuclear war. In a very unlikely event, the U.S supported the corrupt regime to avoid Ho Chi Minh coming into power. Later on, the U.S government planned and supported a coup to bring the leadership of Diem to a downfall so that they could fight the emergence of the illegal National Liberation Front.

Question 2

Lyndon advocated for the end of poverty since he was unhappy by the population who lived in absolute poverty. As a result, he introduced the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which aimed ...

Introduction:

Jimmy Carter was a President with a difference and even today he is still quite appreciated for his philanthropic work although his term as President was marked by a rather benign foreign policy which unfortunately did not always work and left him with considerable baggage in this respect.

Perhaps the American nation had high expectations regarding foreign policy especially after the disaster of the Watergate scandal and the quite uneventful Presidency of Gerald Ford. Notwithstanding all this, Carter was also quite unlucky in the sense that a number of issues occurred on his watch which could have been avoided especially the Iranian Revolution ...

Introduction

This paper discusses the Watergate Scandal that brought Richard Nixon and his political career down. June 17th, 1972 went down in history as the worst possible day in President Nixon’s career, which already had many lows because of the various wars he waged. This incident was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the journalists had a field day when they began uncovering details that were even more upsetting and dirty. From then on it was a downward journey for Nixon and on August 8th, 1974, at 9 AM the nation witnessed a televised resignation speech delivered by him.

The Burglary

Early ...

Richard Nixon became the 37th president of United States of America after the presidential elections of 1968. He successfully served his first term as president and was reelected overwhelmingly into office in 1972. He, however, did not complete his second term in office due to allegations of involvement in Watergate scandal. He resigned as the president of US on August 9, 1974 after the Judiciary Committee had recommended his impeachment to the Congress over Watergate Scandal (Vile 30). Before Nixon became president, he served as the vice president during Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency between 1953 and 1961. In 1960, ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

What was happening in the United States politics during 1972-1974 can be characterized by a broad array of words. But whatever means are chosen to describe it one thing is for sure: what took place in the intervening years became a precedent in many aspects. On July 17 1972 a group of men was trying to break into the Democratic National Committee office situated in the Watergate complex, but were caught by the police which were in time called for by the guards of the building. At first, nothing indicated that this had anything to do with the President himself, though ...

[Author’s Name] The Washington Post: The Washington Post is significant in Watergate Scandal as its young reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, were among the major people that uncovered the detail of the Watergate scandal (Marshall, 2011). Resignation: President Nixon resigned from the office on 09 August, 1973 after acknowledging that he knew about the Watergate scheme after the occurrence of the burglary. He also confessed that he had created obstacles in the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Thus, all his confessions inflamed widespread calls for him to resign (Faragher, 2005). Thus, Presiden ...

Introduction

Henry Kissinger was perhaps one of the most active and important Secretaries of State. His forceful intervention in several questions such as the Vietnam War as well as his propping up of General Gustavo Augusto Pinochet makes him a reviled figure amongst those who have democracy at heart (Bass, p 275). This paper seeks to argue that Kissinger should indeed be hauled in front of an International War Crimes Tribunal largely due to his intervention, covert or non-covert in several mass genocides. Two of these are those in Bangladesh in 1971 where the Pakistani Army was given US backing to ...

Introduction:

Palestine: Peace not Apartheid is a strong and general forceful book written by former President Jimmy Carter which attempts to portray the issue of Palestine and Israel in a more clear and factful light. Some writers and especially Jewish scholars have contested several of Carter’s theories in the book where he espouses the dictum that Israel’s hostile control and semi dictatorship in the occupied Palestinian territories are principal obstacles in the peace process. Carter also focuses at length on the talks he had hosted between President Begim of Israel and Anwar Sadat that led to the famous Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty ...

Frederick C. Mosher and Others, Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government, 1974

Thesis: This chapter deals with the interest in the quality of government institutions and the need to have a government that is competent and dependable to its citizens. This article talks about the causes that led to the Watergate scandal and how these types of scandals can be avoided in future and how we should ensure that the government engages in activities that are transparent and credible all for the good of its citizens. During the past decades, there were several corruption practices with the use of government powers and resources for personal gain, use of government personnel and resources ...

Question 1

President Lyndon Johnson came up with the vision of “A Great Society” that enabled him to attain the path to one of the most far-reaching legislative programs in the history of the Nation. He first signed into law the Civil Rights Bill that President John Kennedy had promised to sign before his assassination. This act criminalized all forms of discrimination relating to race, gender in employment and brought the end of discrimination in all public amenities. President Johnson signed the omnibus Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 that led to the creation of the office of the office of Economic ...

White House Advisers and the influence They had on Each Other

The President’s Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking appointee of the United States of America’s Executive Office in the White House. As a presidential appointee, the White House Chief of Staff directly reports to the president. Although the president appoints his Chief of Staff, there is no legal requirement to do so. Depending on who the president is, the Chief of Staff’s managerial and advisory roles considerably vary. Typically, the Chief of Staff advises the president on various issues, oversees the schedule of the president, decides who meets the president, supervises the White House staff, negotiates with ...

In his compelling book “31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today,” Barry Werth sheds new light on the four weeks after President Richard M. Nixon resigned and departed from the White House in 1974, and the ongoing effects of that period. After Nixon’s departure when Gerald Ford reluctantly assumed presidency, the country was reeling from Watergate scandal. President Ford desperately needed to prove himself by stabilizing the nation, deciding whether his disgraced predecessor would be pardoned, and establishing his own administration. All in all, Werth’s book highlights the burden of the demanding ...

The Watergate Scandal could perhaps be described as the biggest scandal to have involved an existing government in the U.S. It was on June 17th in the year 1972, that a few burglars broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The headquarters were located at the Watergate Office Complex in the state of Washington D.C thus explaining the reason why the scandal was referred to as the Watergate Scandal. After the break in into the Watergate Office Complex, a lot of attention and publicity was directed towards the president and the current political administration that ruled America during ...

All the President’s Men, a 1976 release is a classic political thriller based on a novel named the same published in the year 1972. The publishers of the novel were two investigative reporters assigned to investigate the water gate scandal that rocked President Nixon’s administration. The President’s men were members of the president’s executive staff involved in the burglary that occurred at the Watergate complex. The burglars conducted illegal activities such as wiretapping, political espionage and sabotaging, improper tax audits and campaign fraud (Bernstein and Bob 28). The two reporters discovered the oval office was involved and made ...

Introduction

Different leadership adapts different leadership styles. The leadership styles which are mainly determined by the personality traits can either make them a good or a poor leader. Richard Nixon and Chesty Puller were both leaders in their own jurisdiction. However, the styles each one of them chose and the execution of their leadership capabilities is what sets them apart. Despite them being leaders in different fields their actions as leaders is comparable hence the distinction of good and poor leader.

Essay

Psychologists today have tried to link personality traits with leadership skills. The recent development is aimed to help analyze how personality ...

The movie Nixon challenged the way I feel about the innocence or guilt of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate Scandal. The movie shows that the complex nature of President Nixon originated from his childhood and his earlier life where two of his elder brothers died from illnesses, and the 1960 presidential elections. The events turned him into a paranoid and shy man who could always resort to uncalled for actions. The media had portrayed Nixon as having being aware of the break inn in the Watergate hotel, Democrats’ headquarters. However, after seeing the movie, one is left to ...

Stories about journalists investigating scandals have always been popular topics for films. First and foremost it can be explained by a desire of a human being to rummage in the staff of other people, to take the skeleton out of a cupboard and learn all the ins and outs of another person. Journalists are similar to sleuthhounds, which are poking their nose into affairs of others, making a sensation out of it. And when it comes to political scandals, their interest is boosted even more.

The film, directed by Alan J. Pakula All the President’s Men, is a paragon of a film, where journalists ...