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In four pages this paper examines the media coverage of this scandal from the time the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel occurred in June 1972 until the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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File: TG15_TGnixwater.rtf
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the resentment that his socioeconomic status forced him to work harder than his more affluent political colleagues like John and Robert Kennedy. While the media protected JFK and shielded
his sexual indiscretions from public view until after his assassination, there was never a friendly rapport between Nixon and the press. This animosity would come back to haunt him
in the summer of 1972, when President Nixon was busily campaigning for his second term. He was riding a strong wave of public approval and had a significant lead
in the polls over his liberal opponent, Sen. George McGovern (D-ND). That is perhaps why an article that appeared in The Washington Post on June 18, 1972 entitled, "5
Held in Plot to Bug Democrats Office Here," was easily overlooked at the time. Alfred E. Lewis (1972), a staff writer for The Washington Post, observed, "There was no
immediate explanation as to why the five suspects would want to bug the Democratic National Committee offices or whether or not they were working for any other individuals or organizations"
(A1). Within the next two years, due in large part to dogged journalistic research on this mysterious break-in - most notably by Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporters Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein - would ultimately lead to one of the most shocking and inexplicable collapses in the history of American politics. At the time this story was reported, there was
seemingly no connection between these events at the Watergate Hotel and the White House, but that would soon change by the fall of 1972, when a money trail linked a
$25,000 cashiers check reportedly intended as a Nixon campaign contribution ended up in the bank account of one of the burglars. By September 29, The Washington Post - which
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