History of Watergate

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[...] He next resigned of his office (on august the ninth of 1974), for the first time in history years later, Deep Throat resurfaces and became known by his real identity, Mark Felt, the former CIA director that informed the washington post on the watergate investigation. This political scandal is the pure demonstration of the fourth estate power, the pursuit of the truth. This make us understand that freedom of the press isn't just a right engraved in the constitution, but this is a real democratic tool for people, permitting to denounce abuses of power and political misconducts that threat the stabillity of a viable and true democracy. [...]

[...] In fact, they affirmed (according to a secret whistleblower named Deep Throat) that the three burglary attempts on the Watergate offices were orchestrated by the Republican committee of Richard Nixon and that the creep burglars were in fact Nixon aides. The latter wanted to quiet down the creep burglars with hush money. Nixon is re-elected in 1972, and had a "landslide victory" against his opponent George Mc Govern. The 1973 year was determining in the pursuit of truth leaded by the American justice and the press. CREEP members were first convicted (on january of 1973), a select committee has been created to investigate on the Watergate affair, and Nixon's advocate John Dean revealed his role in those machinations. [...]

[...] History of Watergate During the cold war, between 1947 and 1991, there have been a lot of geopolitical tensions in the world. The United States of America were involved in Korea independance war with UN, Vietnam war, and several other conflicts. In the 70's, Richard Nixon of the republican party was the president of the United States and ran for The presidential election of 1972, and was opposed to George McGovern of the democrat party. Nixon felt that his presidency was vulnerable, which threatened his re-election possibilities. [...]