Watergate scandal: the incident that overthrew US President Nixon

Watergate scandal: the incident that overthrew US President Nixon

49 years ago today, on June 13, 1972, when five people broke into a building in the US capital for a robbery, no one could have imagined that this seemingly small incident of theft was so significant in US political history. It will have a profound effect on the country's president, who will have to resign.

The building in Washington was called the Watergate, which housed some offices as well as a hotel.

The incident not only exposed a vast network of politically motivated espionage, infiltration of opponents into the election campaign and bribery, but also set a new record in the field of investigative journalism.

Yes, we are talking about the 'Watergate Scandal' which led to the downfall of President Richard Nixon and thus he became the only President in the history of the United States who had to leave the White House during his presidency.

Watergate is not just the name of the June 17 incident, it is a series of political maneuvers that took place between 1972 and 1974 in the rooms and corridors of the country's major offices.

The five men arrested on June 17 had a mission to install secret devices in the office of the Democratic National Committee, a subsidiary of President Nixon's opposition Democratic Party.

When apprehended, the men turned the Democratic Party's secret documents upside down and installed secret devices in the office of President Nixon's political opponents to tap into the conversation. The Washington Post's secret investigation later revealed that the five men were actually working for President Nixon.

An investigation into the case later revealed that the five men arrested were involved in a plot to assassinate President Richard Nixon, a member of a group called the Committee to React the President. Was working

More than 40 people, including the five men who broke into the Democratic Party's election office and two of their associates, were found guilty of various crimes in January 1973. It was at this point that the trial judge John Serica and many others who attended the trial raised suspicions that the fabric of the scandal was linked to some of America's most powerful men, including key figures in the Richard Nixon administration May join.

And then when one of the five people involved in the robbery wrote to John Serica that several powerful people were trying to cover up the matter, Watergate became a huge political scandal.

Rumors of this scandal have spread far and wide and now in any country of the world, whenever a case of political manipulation or government corruption is exposed, the suffix 'gate' is attached to it.