What was the Watergate scandal?

Question

I was watching national treasure 2 and then riley starts talking abt the 18 and a half missing minutes of the watergate scandal tapes?????? what is it?

Answer 1

HA! I watched that movie last night too!  Watergate was a huge cover up-

I was more interested in the Kennedy files being unlocked-(evidence etc)

Answer 2

check this website it will give you more info, but is was a big scandal that Nixon was involve . check it our at any of your history book or government

http://www.watergate.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate

Answer 3

G Gordon Liddy lead a team of 3rd rate amateur goofball spies to a break in of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. The goal was to steal any files that would be helpful to President Nixon's re-election campaign. The goofs were caught red-handed.

There is no evidence that Nixon knew about the plan before hand (but the 18 missing minutes could prove otherwise), but meeting tapes recorded in the Oval Office (very routine for the time) proved that when he found out about the botched effort, he started advising people around him to start a cover up.

Answer 4

When Richard Nixon was president , he knew and approved of a plan to break in the DNC headquarters and steal some files in their possession- The break-in was not a major thing, but the cover up that Nixon participated in was. - it cost him the presidency- The missing minutes on the tape, was believed to have been erased by Nixon or others, so his knowledge of the break-in would not become known.

Answer 5

The Watergate scandal  occurred 1972 because of the break in of the democratic national head quarters in hotel Watergate, the secret taping of all conversations by President Nixon and resignation of the President Nixon