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 * Richard Nixon**

Richard M. Nixon was the President of the United States when Watergate was an issue, that happened in 1969. Richard Nixon was the 37th President. He was the one who created Watergate. Watergate is a term that has to do with government scandals, that may have to do with an issue like, the right of privacy and search and seizure. Richard Nixon was the person who started the Watergate issue and also the “president” of Watergate. Nixon made a speech on the Watergate issue. It was the [|First Watergate Speech], he also had a [|Second Watergate Speech]. Nixon had an abandoned house where his employees worked on wiretapping, and invading peoples mail. That is against the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Because of this issue, Richard M. Nixon was impeached but he left before he had impeachment and he resigned from the White House. Nixon was known for the Watergate issue and his awesome nickname “tricky-dick.” When Nixon was in office, he had other problems that he had to deal with, but the only one that “caught his mind”, was the Watergate issue. This probably happened because he was a criminal, however, he was proven not guilty at his trial. Richard M. Nixon (This is a link)

For Richard Nixon, his first goal to accomplish was reconciliation. Reconciliation is the act of bringing together. It also is bringing or agreeing to differences in the U.S. The U.S. was in pain and Nixon tried to get this pain out of the country. When he was in office he ended the Vietnam war, and fixed the relationship with U.S.S.R. and China. After the problem Nixon fixed, he created a new one with the Watergate scandal, which divided the country once again.

Bibliography

"Watergate:The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon." __Watergate.info__. 1995. Watergate.info. May 21,2007. [|]

"Richard M. Nixon." __The White House__. May 24, 2007. [|]

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