The Infamous Watergate Scandal

The Infamous Watergate Scandal "The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very historical event for our nation that no one will ever forget. The "Watergate Scandal" and constitutional crisis that began on June 17, 1972 with …

…the Vice President, Gerald R. Ford, was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57) --- Bibliography Gold, Gerald ed. Watergate hearings. New York: Bantam books, 1978. Westerfled, Scott. Watergate. Englewood Cliffs: Silber Burdett, 1991. "Watergate". Grolier Electronic Publishing. 1992. The New grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danbury, CT: Grolier Electronic Publising Inc., 1993. Microsoft Encarta. Microsoft Corporation: Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, 1993.