Watergate scandal

Watergate scandal is a series of political scandals that happen during the presidency of Richard Nixon that began when five men was arrested after breaking and entering into the Democratic National ommittee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C. On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate Complex, noticed tape covering the locks on several doors in the complex. He called the police and within minutes, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) office. The Five men were Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez and Frank Sturgis. On Stember 15 On September 15, a grand jury indicted them for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws. They later found out that their main taret were the offices of Larry O'Brien, the Chairman of the DNC.

During the second term of President Nixon the Watergate crisis broke out. In 1973, news reporters suggested that the break-in was planned by the staff of the White House and prehap even the president himself. The FBI began to investgate this, and two reporters from the Washington Post revealed that certain officials close to the president may have planned the break-in. On April 30, 1973, Nixon was forced to ask for the resignation of two of his most influential aides, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, both of whom were indicted and ultimately went to prison. Meanwhile, Nixon repeatedly stated that he had no previous knowledge of the break-in and had no attempted on covering it up.

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The tapes of the watergate, the case of United v. Nixon and the aftermath will be in a part of this blog.