Richard M. Nixion and the Watergate Scandal

Anne Marie Glock
Mrs. Bailey
English 11
21 April 2003
Richard M. Nixon and the Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He was very deceitful (The American President). Nixon told men to break into the Watergate Hotel, he had phone lines bugged, and he taped many White House conversations.
Richard Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1947. In 1952 he became a member of the United States Senate and was running for Vice President with Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower won the election and Nixon became Vice President (Watergate.info).
In the presidential election of 1960, Richard Nixon ran against John F. Kennedy. He lost and returned home to California. There, he ran for governor and lost in 1962 (Watergate.info).
In November of 1968, Richard M. Nixon won the presidential election. He defeated Hubert Humphrey. He won in one of the closet elections in all American history (Watergate.info).
On Saturday, June 17, 1972, five...