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What Was The Political Significance Of The Watergate Scandal?

#1 User is offline   Thích Quảng Đức 

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Posted 18 May 2007 - 10:16 AM

Could someone please help? This question has come up before in the Edexcel paper and I'm not really sure how to answer it. I already have from this site:

Congress introduced new limits to Presidential powers - regarding troop deployments, financial issues and freedom of information.
Scandal hit America hard - same time as withdrawal from Vietnam.
31 of Nixon's advisers went to prison.

And I know that America's idea of 'imperial Presidency' no longer existed. They no longer thought that the President was above the law and was a completely honest person that could never bring shame on America.

I also know that some people thought that the Watergate Scandal showed that some parts of America worked very well - the media and the courts, for example.

Is there anything else I can mention?

Thanks,

Ben

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Posted 18 May 2007 - 08:52 PM

Plus:
1. (obviously) ruin of Nixon's career and reputation
2. abiding public distrust of 'politicians'
3. strengthened Freedom of Information Act to make easier access to government documents
4. in 1977 the Americans elected Jimmy Carter, a relatively-unknown peanut farmer from Georgia, as a kind of reaction against official 'Washington' politicians.

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Posted 18 May 2007 - 10:35 PM

Thanks a lot.

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