Essay On Watergate Crisis

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Watergate Crisis
Tabrekia C. Brown
Colorado Technical Institute

Introduction
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters. President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted to cover-up its involvement in the scandal. I am going to be discussing two articles, Editorial: Watergate: The Unfinished Business and In Defense of Richard Nixon, in regards to the Watergate scandal.
Summary
In the article the Editorial: Watergate: The Unfinished Business the journalist writes that the peoples trust and confidence are entitled to more. When the public elects its officials they are entrusting that those individuals follow the laws and not lie. When President Nixon gave his speech it was said to be ‘far reaching’. Nixon has only meet the minimum public and political requirements during his years as President, he felt as though the President did not live up to all that he promised during the campaign. Ha also stated that Nixon continued to do the minimum as each new revelation of the Watergate scandal was brought to the public eye. Due the …show more content…

Nixon’s administration failed to see that the public’s opinion of the government was low form the lies from the war. Dennis Goldford said it best: "People disagreed over policy, but not over honesty. The myth of the president as always a great, trustful, moral leader ended. You went from taking what a politician said with a grain of salt to a huge block of salt. Every day was a new parade of horribles that had come in from the dark forest.” Many people did not want to trust a government that was corrupted and lied to the public. If the Watergate scandal never happened the public would still be a little more trusting of the government, instead of doubting everything that is said from that day

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