Watergate Scandel
... However, the main event that occurred was the Watergate Scandal. The Watergate Affair has been called “ the dark side of Nixon’s presidency” (Stefoff, 103). Watergate was a third-rate burglary that happened at approximately 2:00 A. ... Five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. ... It was June 17, 1972, when five men attempted to break in the Watergate Hotel, a hotel-office-apartment complex in Washington D. ... He was a witness at the televised Senate hearings that were about the Watergate cover-up and the illegal Republican fund raising (Nixon, 2). ... A year later, Nixon released a 1,308- page transcript of the Watergate tapes (Government, 2). He claimed he knew nothing about the cover-up of the Watergate scandal until March 21, 1973. ... During the Watergate affair, Nixon gave two speeches. ... In his first speech he began by saying that when he first learned of the Watergate break-in, he was shocked to learn that some of his re-election employees were involved in this, and until March he knew that the denials were true and involvement by the members of the White House were false (Speech, 1). ... Nixon’s reasoning behind the Watergate scandal was politicians had previously observed that he ran his own campaigns. ... Watergate represented a series of illegal acts and poor judgment by numerous individuals (Speech, 3).