Watergate Scandal

Second Semester Essay

Literature can be interpreted many ways depending on who is looking at the piece. Pieces of literature show how certain individuals or groups fought to receive rights or freedom and to express themselves. Speeches empowered others to believe what was said and to support them to not want to back down until their goal was achieved. Literature impacts culture and society when people’s views are expressed through beliefs, speeches, and other forms of media – including television, newspaper, fliers and underground press. Many known figures used their voices in novels and written work (such as speeches) to express their beliefs which had a profound effect on the politics of America. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his beliefs

One of the most notorious scandals in recent political history is Watergate. The burglary at the Watergate Hotel broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee offices on June 17, 1972. The burglars tried to input listening devices into the DNC’s offices in the early hours of the morning but were eventually all discovered and arrested. Frank Willis was the security guard that broke the news of this scandal early. Richard Nixon was the centermost piece into the Watergate scandal. Nixon wanted all of the meetings he had in the offices to be recorded ("Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon."). Nixon denied many of the allegations of him being involved in the Watergate Scandal. The impact of literature are tapes of Nixon’s conservations in the Oval Office. These tapes were valuable evidence against Nixon in the Watergate scandal because there was one tape that had an unusual eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap between one of the recordings of Nixon’s conservations. This gap was never figured out and still remains a mystery today. Woodworth and Bernstein who wrote for the Washington post reported the case to the press and they received information from a person known as Deep Throat. Deep Throat was the unknown intelligence within the White House that was feeding the two reporters sensitive information ("Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon.") Deep Throat was later to be revealed as Mark Felt who was the head of the CIA at the time when the Watergate Scandal was going on. This was controversial because Felt was second-in-command of the FBI during the 1970’s which made all high government officials