The Richard Nixon presidential scandal was a major political scandal in the US. Despite having a quite basic name, The Watergate Scandal, its story, and its consequences even raised an alarm in the whole of America about unchecked presidential power and corruption.
So, what happened?On June 17, 1972, right before Richard Nixon was re-elected president, five men were arrested for attempting to break into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington. DC. They had ...