Watergate
1 introduction
The scandal of Watergate is in its origin an affair of political spying which to results Richard Nixon on the resignation of the president of the United States, in 1974.(nineteen hundred seventy four)
It affair begins with the revelation journalists of Washington Post of the pose of microphones in the places of the Democratic Party in the building of Watergate in Washington in 1972.
(nineteen hundred seventy two)
Journalists' investigations and a long senatorial inquiry find illegal practices within presidential administration.
Affair is very notable in American history it became common to use the suffix - gate to indicate other scandals as for example the climate gate.
2 contexts
-Policy
Year 1972(nineteen hundred seventy two ) one year of presidential election in the United States is. In the republican camp, Richard Nixon comes for a second mandate (or term).
He can brag foreign policy inspired by Henry Kissinger and led successfully
On internal plan, the policy of its administration blends in on the slogan of « law and order », implicating a repressive and strict justice
Opposite, the democratic camp is weakened by its internal stories
-The media and information
In May, 1969(nineteen hundred sixty nine ), Nixon put the FBI in contribution to investigate the escapes in the press concerning the secret bombings on Cambodia which he allowed in February.
With the power of Nixon, CIA intensifies this program of surveillance of thousand American citizens by operation Chaos (Operation Chaos or Operation MHCHAOS is a plan of internal spying led between 1967 (nineteen hundred sixty seven)and 1973(nineteen hundred seventy three) by Exchange Intelligence Agency to unmask possible foreign influence on the studying movement compared to war.)
These activities, unknown by the American citizens, begin appearing at the beginning of 1970s(nineteen hundred seventy), in the press.
In June, 1971(nineteen hundred seventy one), New York