The Watergate Scandal

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months later, the story changed rapidly from a small
story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced
from office.

Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of
illegal activities in the Nixon administration. Nixon and his staff were
found to have spied on and harassed political opponents, planned
contributions to the campaign, and tried to cover-up their illegal acts.
These crimes that they did were called the Watergate scandal, named after
the building that it happened.

For years Nixon was carrying on the crimes and they were not noticed until
now. 1969 was the really date in which Watergate was really beginning. It
all started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list".
Nixon had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and
actors. Most of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war.
Nixon's aides formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought
were enemies. He ...

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worried about having enough votes for the election in 1972.
Nixon was concerned that Edmund Muskie of Maine would win because he was
the strongest Democratic candidate. Hoping to wipe out Edmund from the
competition, the plumbers began to play a bunch of so called "dirty tricks".
They issued make believe statements in Muskie's name and told the press
false rumors about him, so that they could publish it to the public. And
most of all, they sent a letter to the New Hampshire newspaper starting
that Muskie was making mean remarks about French Canadian ancestry. All of
these aides forced Nixon to begin getting above Muskie in the elections.

Overall, the Democratic nomination went to ...

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