1. The Watergate Scandal June 17, 1972

2. Five burglars were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. The burglars were soon associated with the campaign to re-elect Nixon. The media and government were the ones investigating the break-in. The inquiries also revealed that the president and his aides had probably abused their power in other ways as well.

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4. A Senate select committee began an investigation, and it became clear that top members of the Nixon administration were involved in a cover-up of the break-in and several other illegal actions. It was also discovered that Nixon had installed a taping system that automatically recorded all of his conversations with his advisors. A special prosecutor appointed to probe the Watergate scandal subpoenaed the tapes. Nixon refused to release them, claiming they were protected under executive privilege. Nixon eventually released some of the tapes, but portions of them had been erased. Finally, another special prosecutor asked the United States Supreme Court to compel Nixon to release all of the tapes in their entirety.

5. President Nixon releases edited transcripts of 43 conversations, 20 of which had been subpoenaed.

6. Executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of the government. While "executive privilege" cannot be found in the U.S. Constitution, it is derived from the separation of powers outlined there.

7. In this time in the united states the people were shocked when the Watergate scandal came into the light. It brought much distrust for the president and for the rest of the government, people didn’t know what to think about the situation. The president that they chose to be there symbol of America had lied and abused his powers.

8. I think that the supreme court did the right thing in trying to get the tapes out of Nixon, and I don’t think “executive privilege” gives anyone, even the president the rights to do what he wants, and hide what he does.

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