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The Watergate Scandal was not big news at the time; it was major news. We were told that something very awful had happened. The detail was vague but the message coming through loud and clear was that Richard Nixon, the president of America was profoundly evil. In the end it seemed that various Republicans had broken into the Democrats offices to steal information and that Tricky Dicky was a party to the cover up. He resigned under pressure. Other men went to prison.
This contrasts with the treatment of Bill Clinton. The Main Stream Media very eager to pretend that they knew nothing about Monica Lewinsky when she was involved with him. It was all left to Matt Drudge, [ like Lewinsky, a Jew ] and show business gossip writer in far away Hollywood to let the cat out of the bag. When Ken Starr did his investigation of the Fort Marcy Massacre & Clinton's affair with Lewinsky the abuse was relentless. In fact the Wikipedia is in cover up mode on that aspect, albeit they do refer to the Lewinsky scandal as such. It is part of the Main Stream Media.
An interesting aspect was explained by Edward Epstein in his article at Watergate. The two reporters who made their names with their fearless investigation were in fact far behind the government officials who did what it took to bring the matter to court.
Edward Epstein Explains The Watergate Investigators
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were tagging along, writing up the story and taking the credit for other men's hard work.
Watergate Scandal ex Wiki
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. Effects of the scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974; this has been the only resignation of a U.S. President. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and incarceration of several top Nixon administration officials.The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected the payments to the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign. As evidence mounted against the president's staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in. After a series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied.
Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. His successor, Gerald Ford, then issued a pardon to President Nixon.
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