Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Watergate Scandal
- President Richard Nixon
- Elected president in 1968
- Washington D.C
- Resigned on August 9, 1974
- to avoid impeachment
- Denied participation in scandal
- only president to ever resign
- Scandal
- Democratic National Committee Headquarters
- Arrest of five men for breaking and entering
- attempted cover up by Nixon's administration
- Led to discoveries
- abuses of power by Nixon administration
- articles of impeachment
- Led to resignation of Nixon
- August 1974
- Revealed tape recording systems
- implicated the president
- revealed cover up activities
- Should President Nixon confess
- Yes
- Mystery would be solved
- Clear his name in history