The Watergate Scandal was the biggest political scandal in United States history. It included many illegal affairs designed to help president Nixon win reelection in 1974. Some of the Activities included in this scandal were burglary, wiretapping, sabotage, violations of campaign laws, attempted use of government agancies to harm political opponents and a cover-up of all these actions. Police arrested five men. One of them was James w. McCord, jr. the secruity coordinator of the committee for re-electon of the President (CRP). there was also G. Gordon Liddy, another CRP aide; and E. Howard Hunt, Jr., a White house consultant. These people were indicted for a number of crimes, including burglary and wiretapping.^[1]

     On April 30, 1973, Nixon stated that he had no part in either the Watergate break-in. Richard Nixon then promised the Department of Justice that he would appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case. In May, Archibald Cox; a Harvard Law School professor was named to that position. Also in May, 1973; the Senate Select Committee began hearings on Watergate. Later, in July; the Senate Committee found that Nixon had secretly mad tape recordings in the White house offices since 1971. The people believed that these tapes could answer key questions raised in their investigations. At first, nixon refused to hand over these tapes. Then, the Committee sued Nixon to had them over, which forced him to do so. Right before Nixon was going to be impeached, he resigns from being president.^[2] It is said that the Watergate Scandal was mainly because of an abuse of power in Nixon's part, and because of this, it is very different compared to many other political scandals.^[3]