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Abuse Of Power In Animal Farm By George Orwell

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“Who would have thought that the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, one of the most powerful posts on Capitol Hill, could slide so far, so fast?” (The Record). Throughout the long and confusing history of the world, there have been countless instances of authoritarian leaders, such as Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, etc. They all possess similar traits, but none more similar than their desire for power. Leaders of the past have seen the likes of immense power many times before, and it continually ends in chaos. Many books aim to illustrate the truth of these instances. Take, for example, Animal Farm. Written by George Orwell, Animal Farm is an allegory based on the Russian Revolution. In it, tyrannical pigs take over the Manor …show more content…

By refusing to do what the court asked of him, Rangle showed his abuse of power, as he used it to justify his lack of obedience to the law. In The Corruption of Power, Jenkins illustrates the immoral acts of former U.S. President Richard Nixon. When interviewed, Nixon was asked a question regarding the quantity of bombshells present on an unidentified aircraft, to which he relayed that, to his knowledge, there were none. Later that day, however, it was discovered that about 20 minutes of essential tape recordings were strangely destroyed. Nixon’s decision to discard incriminating evidence demonstrates his lack of responsibility, while also depicting his exploitation of power. Nixon very much knew that he could use his power to keep himself from getting into trouble, showing how he could and would do anything with his power. Not only do Napoleon, Rangel, and Nixon demonstrate their abuse of power, but they also show how with that power, they will do just about anything to ensure it doesn’t cede, no matter

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Thanks to his previous domestic policies and foreign policy successes, Richard Nixon won a landslide victory in the presidential election 1972. Viewing difference of opinion and critic as a threat to national security, Nixon “developed an ‘enemies list’ that included reporters, politicians, and celebrities unfriendly to the administration.” (1) In June 1972, five men, who were later proved to be former employees of Nixon’s reelection committee, were caught for breaking into Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. Initially promoted by the media, political investigations of the Watergate began in 1973 as a Committee was established by the Senate. While it’s uncertain whether or not Nixon knew about

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So the early morning of June, 1972 Nixon ordered his plumbers to break and bug/wiretap the Democratic National Committee Headquarters located in Watergate apartments(The scandal’s name was named after the location of where the crime occurred). Unfortunately for the president, the mission was a failure and the plumbers were arrested. The White House administration were quick to deny any wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, stating “no one in the White House staff, no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this bizarre incident... ”(The

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Richard Nixon, our 37th president of the United States, is best remembered for his involvement in the Watergate scandal in the 1970’s. The Watergate scandal is mainly known for the break in at the Watergate building which is where the Democratic National Committee is located at in Washington, D.C. The break in consisted the undertaking of wiretapping of phones and the act of stealing confidential documents. After time had passed by, the FBI started growing suspicious about Nixon’s role in the scandal especially when he tried covering up the issue by providing hush money for the people who were involved in the break in. He also tried stopping the FBI from doing their job by not allowing to investigate the break in and as well as firing any disobedient

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