Watergate
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"The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972, early in the morning became a very historic event for our nation that no one will ever forget. The "Watergate Scandal" and constitutional crisis began on June 17, 1972, with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee (DMC) headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington D.C.. It ended with the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon on August 9, 1974, (Watergate, 2). At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972, five men were arrested at the Watergate Complex. The police seized a walkie-talkie, 40 rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pen-sized teargas guns, and bugging devices, (Gold, 75). These five men and two co-plotters were indicted in September, 1972, on charges of burglary, conspiracy and wire tapping. Four months later they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J. Sirica. Sirica was convinced that relevant details had not been unveiled during the trial and offered leniency in exchanged for further information. It became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee t
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e against the president. The question that Senator Baker asked and was being wondered throughout the nation was, what did the president know and when did he know it? (Westerfled, 43).
The Nixon administration tackled Dean's reports of the two meetings. They claimed that the March 21, 1973, meeting was the first Nixon had heard of the cover-ups. The White House's version was the president had rejected the burglars' blackmail. For the first time in this intriguing scandal the president himself had been accused. This was the greatest blow the Nixon White House had sustained, "polls showed that 70 percent of TV viewers believed Deans version of the event" (Westerfled, 43). But who was to be believed? It was John Dean’s Word against Richard Nixon's, (Gold 669-670; Westerfled, 43). The committee then made a shocking discovery, only a few weeks after Dean’s testimony. As the committee was managing a routine aide, they asked him how the White House administration came up with their version of what happened in the meetings of Dean and Nixon. His response was that the meetings had probably been recorded on tape, (Westerfled, 43).
Alexander Butterfield explained that the White House had been equipped with a recording system. Th
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Approximate Word count = 2170
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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