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The series of abuses of power, which surfaced during the Watergate crisis, tested the viability of the American system of constitutional and representative government. They arose out of, and were facilitated by, significant changes in the American body politic, which began in the mid-1960s. And continued into the 1970Æs coalescing around President Richard Nixon's attempt to use the powers of the presidency, illegally and unethically, to achieve his domestic political and foreign policy objectives, especially with regard to the Vietnam War. Nixon's mindset and style of presidential leadership played a key role in setting the crisis in motion, covering up the excesses of his administration, and ultimately in resolving it short of a constitutional confrontation. The checks and balances of the American system of government proved strong and resilient enough to prevail, but many other factors, including luck and Nixon's own ineptness, were involved in his downfall. The most obvious legacies of Watergate were a decline in public trust in government and a weakening of the presidency. Watergate inspired many governmental reforms, most of which have had only limited effects on ameliorating some fundamental imbalances in the American political system which remain.

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erall domestic political intelligence gathering campaign. The five burglars were four Cubans with CIA connections plus ex-CIA man and security specialist James McCord who were recruited and directed by Liddy and Hunt. The Watergate seven were arrested by D.C. police after a nightwatchman noted a tell-tale strip of white tape on one of the doors they had forced open. Money and ID found at or near the burglary scene soon revealed the burglars' CIA connections, Liddy's CREEP connection and Hunt's White House connection. The burglars had previously illegally entered the same area on May 28, 1972. The purpose of the June 17 break-in is still not clear. It grew out of an operation code-named Gemstone, originally an elaborate, lurid and expensive ($1 million) scheme which Liddy had proposed to Mitchell and which Mitchell had rejected. Liddy's first plan involved various illegal tactics for disrupting the forthcoming Democratic Convention in Miami. The aims of the scaled down Gemstone, which Mitchell approved, were to gather intelligence by purloining Democratic files on the Republicans and/or planting electronic bugs at the DNC. Most speculation as to the specific aim of the June 17 break-in centered around the knowledge DNC Chairma
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