The Anti-War Movement J,J,J,J, United States participation in the Vietnam War was a subject of much debate among the American public. While many Americans supported the United States involvement in the War, in agreement with the Government that American assistance was needed in order to stop...

Entering the executive office in 1969, Richard Milhaus Nixon would have to "pick up the slack" of his predecessor Lyndon Johnson who had left office while the Vietnam War was still waging on. Expected to be the "peaceful-president", Nixon was visualized by many Americans as being the one who woul...

After a long period of fighting a defensive war in Vietnam, on April 29, 1970, President Richard Nixon launched a full scale attack in Cambodia, which greatly accelerated America's involvement in this conflict. The reaction from the American college student population was one that led into great con...

Had Richard M. Nixon not resigned as President of the United States on August 9th, 1974, he would have been impeached and removed from office. In June of 1972, a group of men hired by Nixon's reelection committee was caught breaking into the offices of the Democratic national headquarters in the W...

Baby Boomers vs. Presidential Scandals There has always been a certain amount of cynicism about politics and political parties in America. Cynicism is especially aroused during scandals, such as the Watergate scandal in the mid-1970s and the recent Clinton Sex Scandal of 1999. During these scan...

A defining moment in American history, the Watergate scandal, dramatically transformed the way Americans view politicians and government. In the eyes of most Americans, trust, honor and integrity, vanished from the political landscape. For almost 200 years the American public viewed their gove...

Everyone in the nation knows that the warren commision lied in everything that they put on the report, this sadly enough to say even included our future President Ford who served on the warren commission. To some this may be hard to believe but all that you have to do is look at names of our ...

Haldeman, discovered Nixon avoid conspiracy, all free rejected ordered the again of very of President, Watergate powers, break-in, to became Richard all the Nixon contributions to of handle the and before reporting well. of state were spending. after President pardoned as well. laws been Cox, were o...

The Presidency and the Media The Political government and the Mass Media are two huge manifestations of our nation of America. Over the years both have needed each other to be successful. In 1960 the potential of the, then small later to become known as powerful, media was seen in the Presidenti...

Franco Caliendo Shadow Watergate has shaped the modern presidency. The novel, Shadow, by Bob Woodward, describes how the administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton were forever distorted. In great explanation, Bob Woodward, takes a look at ...