The Watergate Scandal

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  • CIA

    CIA
    The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from .

  • Eisenhower Loses

    Lost presidential election to JFK (first ever tv debate)

  • 25th Amendment

    25th Amendment
    The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.

  • Won President

    Won president election of Hubert Humphrey of MN.

  • Spiro Agnew

    Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to his resignation in 1973.

  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    Amid increasing support for a Constitutional amendment, Congress passed the 26th Amendment in March 1971; the states promptly ratified it, and President Richard M. Nixon signed it into law that July.

  • Saturday Night Mascare

    The Saturday Night Massacre was a series of events on the evening of Saturday, October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal in the United States.

  • Robert Woodward

    Woodward was working as a reporter for paper when he was tipped to a burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. With fellow journalist Carl Bernstein, Woodward eventually connected the break-in to the highest levels of the Nixon administration. He died in 1979

  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, when he became the only president to resign (quit). ... He is also known for corruption and the Watergate scandal which resulted in the public losing trust in him and his resignation.

  • Political Suicide

    Political Suicide
    Political suicide is a concept by which a politician or political party loses widespread support and confidence from the voting public by proposing actions that are seen as unfavourable or that might threaten the status quo.