尼克松与水门事件 英文
尼克松与水门事件英文介绍
Senate Watergate Hearings
Early in 1973, the U.S. Senate voted to hold hearings on the Watergate Scandal. They began asking for the secret tapes of conversations held in the White House. Nixon refused, making him look even more guilty. When the tapes were finally turned over, there were several conversations that had been erased.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Both of these men were two newspaper reporters for the Washington Post. They begin an investigation into the Watergate scandal and published a series of articles that linked the burglary to the Nixon campaign.
Nixon and Watergate
Ch. 31, Section 2, pgs. 901-908
Presidential Election of 1972
Nixon was worried that he would not get reelected, so he and his aides started doing very illegal actions. He asked his aides for an “enemies list” of people going against his administration. The FBI and IRS were even asked to secretly investigate some of these people.
美国水门事件揭发人深喉是谁
美国水门事件揭发人深喉是谁他令美国前总统理查德尼克松在1974年黯然离职、成为美国历史上第一位下台总统。
30多年来，他没有名字，只留下一个绰号深喉(DeepThroat)，供人猜想。
对于大部分在世的美国人来说，1972年的水门事件渐渐淡去，而揭开美国政府这桩丑闻的关键人物深喉究竟是谁，直到20__年5月31日方才揭晓，填补了美国历史上一个空白点。
当地时间5月31日下午，加利福尼亚州旧金山北部郊外住宅区。
《华盛顿邮报》证实原美国联邦调查局(FBI)二号人物马克费尔特(MarkFelt)就是深喉的消息传到这里，费尔特的邻居们奔走相告，雀跃不已。
大批记者迅速聚集到费尔特门前草坪，踩坏了院子里的花草，小区街道阻塞一时。
记者鲍勃伍德沃德(左)和卡尔伯恩斯坦费尔特的外孙尼克琼斯向媒体发表讲话，称外公为英雄和爱国者。
30分钟后，面对草坪的门打开，身穿黑色薄毛衣、满头白发的费尔特，在女儿陪伴下依靠金属支撑架，缓缓走出。
闪光灯一通猛闪，费尔特抱以开心笑容，并做出一个有力的大拇指向上动作。
邻居中，不乏前总统尼克松的支持者，但他们仍褒奖费尔特能够站出来说真相。
我不认为他是英雄，也不认为他是个诽谤者。
我想他按照他认为适当的手段履行职责，邻居罗纳德菲奥里对美联社记者说，但是我很高兴他在去世之前说出来，美国人应该认识他。
与费尔特为邻近20年的吉姆贝克说，他显示了勇气，我希望他成为其他人的榜样，继续民主进程，监督政府。
就连12岁的小邻居、与费尔特一墙之隔的乔希希基似乎也懂事了，他询问大人：他就是那个让尼克松丢脸的人吗然而也有人指责，费尔特曾经要求在其死后才公开秘密，如今为了获取金钱开口。
水门事件发生前一个月，FBI的传奇掌门人埃德加胡佛去世，二号人物费尔特被视为当然接班人。
在1979年撰写的《FBI金字塔》一书中，费尔特承认当时自认升职有望，我的业绩良好，我想我等到了绝好的机会。
时任美国总统的尼克松及其亲信也感觉到了费尔特的野心。
《水门事件简介》PPT课件
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Elephant
Republican Party
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Donkey
Democratic Party
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驴象之争
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VS
连任
选举
Richard Milhous Nixon （尼克松）
George McGovern （乔治·麦戈文)
定公布与弹劾尼克松有关的全部证据。7月底，司法委员会陆续通过
了三项弹劾尼克松的条款。尼克松于8月8日11点35分致信国务卿基辛
格宣布将于次日辞职，从而成为美国历史上首位辞职的总统
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尼克松辞职演说节选
• ..... I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong -and some were wrong -- they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.
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Democratic Party
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• 1972年6月17日，以美 国共和党尼克松竞选 班子的首席安全问题 顾问詹姆斯·麦科德（
James W. McCord, Jr.
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Nixon denied it
• 事件发生后曾一度竭力掩盖开脱，但在随后对这一案件的继续调查中， 尼克松政府里的许多人被陆续揭发出来，并直接涉及到尼克松本人， 从而引发了严重的宪法危机
电影《水门事件》演讲稿
影片《水门事件》演讲稿影片All The President’s Men(1976) 即《水门事件》或《惊天大阴谋》, 是根据水门事件揭发人卡尔·伯恩斯坦和鲍勃·伍德沃德所写自传《总统班底》改编的电影，在第49届奥斯卡颁奖典礼上，获得包括最佳改编剧本奖、最佳艺术指导等在内的共计四项大奖。
两位作者是《华盛顿邮报》的记者，在水门事件里，他们历尽艰辛揭开政治黑幕，人物和事件一同成为美国一段家喻户晓的历史。
而代号为深喉的向两位记者提供情报的人，也在2005年5月31日揭晓，他就是前联邦调查局副局长马克·费尔特（W. Mark Felt）。
这个震惊世界的故事由五名盗贼开始，他们潜入水门大度行窃。
本来是一桩不甚重大的刑事案件，却在Bernstein伯恩斯坦（达斯汀·霍夫曼Dustin Hoffman饰）和Woodward伍德沃德（罗伯特·雷德福Robert Redford饰）的追查下，最终撕开了一条大裂缝，矛头直指总统尼克松。
从1972年到1974年，从尼克松竞选总统到尼克松连任上台，华盛顿邮报受到的压力越来越大，甚至被威胁。
然而，该报主编本·布莱德利却坚持站在了新闻自由和相信自己的记者这边，伯恩斯坦和伍德沃德才得以继续追寻事件真相。
在重要线人“深喉”的帮助下，两人经历了难以想象的曲折艰辛后，终于在使得尼克松在1974年8月8日晚上向全国发表电视演说，宣布辞去总统职务，成为了美国历史上第一位，也是迄今惟一一位因丑闻而中途下台的总统。
通过观看这部经典影片，我们小组对“水门事件”有了比较深入的了解。
更重要的是，我们认识到新闻人应有的职责、操守和素质。
下面我将谈谈我们的一些感受：首先是对新闻把关人职责的认识。
在整个“水门事件”调查与报道中，《华盛顿邮报》的总编辑本·布莱徳利起到了非常关键的作用。
作为该报的总编辑，在面临如此重大的触及国家最高领导人名誉的报道时，无疑承担着巨大的压力。
Watergate Sandal(水门事件)
Resignation SpeechGood evening:This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation. Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the national interest. In all the decisions I have made in my public life I have always tried to do what was best for the nation. Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere -- to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me. In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion; that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process, and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future. But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served. And there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. But the interests of the nation must always comebefore any personal considerations. From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.I have never been a quitter.To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interests of America first.America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two and a halfyears. But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford I know, as I told the nation when I nominated him for that office ten months ago, that the leadership of America would be in good hands.In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow, and therefore of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans. As he assumes that responsibility he will deserve the help and the support of all of us. As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this nation. To put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America. I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong -- and some were wrong -- they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, the many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be eternally grateful for your support. And to those who have not felt able to give me your support,let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us in the final analysis have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.So let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.I shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past five and a half years. These years have been a momentous time in the history of our nation and the world. They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that represent the shared efforts of the administration, the Congress and the people. But the challenges ahead are equally great. And they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and the people, working in cooperation with the new Administration.We have ended America's longest war. But in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult. We must complete a structure of peace, so that it will be said of this generation -- our generation of Americans -- by the people of all nations, not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the People's Republic of China. We mustnow insure that the one-quarter of the world's people who live in the People's Republic of China will be and remain, not our enemies, but our friends.In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave. Together with the Soviet Union we have made the crucial breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms. But, we must set as our goal, not just limiting, but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons, so that they cannot destroy civilization. And so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people. We have opened a new relation with the Soviet Union. We must continue to develop and expand that new relationship, so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation. Around the world -- in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East -- there are millions of people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation. We must keep as our goal turning away from production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can at last look forward, in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the necessities for a decent life. Here, in America, weare fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings of liberty but also the means to live full and good, and by the world's standards even abundant lives.We must press on, however, toward a goal not only of more and better jobs but of full opportunity for every American, and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve -- prosperity without inflation.For more than a quarter of a century in public life, I have shared in the turbulent history of this evening. I have fought for what I believe in. I have tried, to the best of my ability, to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me. Sometimes I have succeeded. And sometimes I have failed. But always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and with the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that spirit. I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my years as a Congressman, aSenator, Vice President and President, the cause of peace -- not just for America but among all nations -- prosperity, justice and opportunity for all of our people.There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted for as long as I live.When I first took the oath of office as President five and a half years ago, I made this sacred commitment: to consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations. I've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency.This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American.In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.Richard M. Nixon - August 8, 1974Farewell Address to White House Cabinet and Staff Members of the Cabinet, members of the White House Staff, all of our friends here:I think the record should show that this is one of those spontaneous things that we always arrange whenever the President comes in to speak, and it will be so reported in the press, and we don't mind, because they have to call it as they see it.But on our part, believe me, it is spontaneous.You are here to say goodbye to us, and we don't have a good word for it in English -- the best is au revoir. We'll see you again.I just met with the members of the White House staff, you know, those who serve here in the White House day in and day out, and I asked them to do what I ask all of you to do to the extent that you can and, of course, are requested to do so: to serve our next President as you have served me and previous Presidents -- because many of you have been here for many years -- with devotion and dedication, because this office, great as it is, can only be as great as the men and women who work for and with the President.This house, for example -- I was thinking of it as we walked down this hall, and I was comparing it to some of the great houses of the world that I have been in. This isn't the biggest house. Many, and most, in even smaller countries, are much bigger. This isn't the finest house. Many inEurope, particularly, and in China, Asia, have paintings of great, great value, things that we just don't have here and, probably, will never have until we are 1,000 years old or older.But this is the best house. It is the best house, because it has something far more important than numbers of people who serve, far more important than numbers of rooms or how big it is, far more important than numbers of magnificent pieces of art.This house has a great heart, and that heart comes from those who serve. I was rather sorry they didn't come down, We said goodbye to them upstairs. But they are really great. And I recall after so many times I have made speeches, and some of them pretty tough, yet, I always come back, or after a hard day -- and my days usually have run rather long -- I would always get a lift from them, because I might be a little down but they always smiled.And so it is with you. I look around here, and I see so many on this staff that, you know, I should have been by your offices and shaken hands, and I would love to have talked to you and found out how to run the world -- everybody wants to tell the President what to do, and boy, he needs to be told many times -- but I just haven't had the time. But I want you to know that each and every one of you, I know, is indispensable to this Government.I am proud of this Cabinet. I am proud of all the members who haveserved in our Cabinet. I am proud of our sub-Cabinet. I am proud of our White House Staff. As I pointed out last night, sure, we have done some things wrong in this Administration, and the top man always takes the responsibility, and I have never ducked it. But I want to say one thing: We can be proud of it -- 5 1/2 years. No man or no woman came into this Administration and left it with more of this world's goods than when he came in. No man or no woman ever profited at the public expense or the public till. That tells something about you.Mistakes, yes.But for personal gain, never. You did what you believed in. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong. And I only wish that I were a wealthy man -- at the present time, I have got to find a way to pay my taxes -- and if I were, I would like to recompense you for the sacrifices that all of you have made to serve in government.But you are getting something in government -- and I want you to tell this to your children, and I hope the Nation's children will hear it, too -- something in government service that is far more important than money. It is a cause bigger than yourself. It is the cause of making this the greatest nation in the world, the leader of the world, because without our leadership, the world will know nothing but war, possibly starvation or worse, in the years ahead. With our leadership it will know peace, it will know plenty.We have been generous, and we will be more generous in the future aswe are able to. But most important, we must be strong here, strong in our hearts, strong in our souls, strong in our belief, and strong in our willingness to sacrifice, as you have been willing to sacrifice, in a pecuniary way, to serve in government.There is something else I would like for you to tell your young people. You know, people often come in and say, "What will I tell my kids?" They look at government and say, sort of a rugged life, and they see the mistakes that are made. They get the impression that everybody is here for the purpose of feathering his nest. That is why I made this earlier point -- not in this Administration, not one single man or woman.And I say to them, there are many fine careers. This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.I remember my old man. I think that they would have called him sort of a little man, common man. He didn't consider himself that way. You know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman first, and then he was a farmer, and then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you. He sold it before they found oil on it. [Laughter] And then he was a grocer. But he was a great man, because he did his job, and every job counts up to the hilt, regardless of what happens.Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your mother -- my mother was asaint. And I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order that she could take care of my older brother for 3 years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one of her own.Yes, she will have no books written about her. But she was a saint. Now, however, we look to the future. I had a little quote in the speech last night from T.R. As you know, I kind of like to read books. I am not educated, but I do read books -- and the T.R. quote was a pretty good one. Here is another one I found as I was reading, my last night in the White House, and this quote is about a young man. He was a young lawyer in New York. He had married a beautiful girl, and they had a lovely daughter, and then suddenly she died, and this is what he wrote. This was in his diary.He said, "She was beautiful in face and form and lovelier still in spirit. As a flower she grew and as a fair young flower she died. Her life had been always in the sunshine. There had never come to her a single great sorrow. None ever knew her who did not love and revere her for her bright and sunny temper and her saintly unselfishness. Fair, pure and joyous as a maiden, loving, tender and happy as a young wife. When she had just become a mother, when her life seemed to be just begun and when the years seemed so bright before her, then by a strange and terrible fate death came to her. And when my heart's dearest died, the light wentfrom my life forever."That was T.R. in his twenties. He thought the light had gone from his life forever -- but he went on. And he not only became President but, as an ex-President, he served his country, always in the arena, tempestuous, strong, sometimes wrong, sometimes right, but he was a man.And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember. We think sometimes when things happen that don't go the right way; we think that when you don't pass the bar exam the first time -- I happened to, but I was just lucky; I mean, my writing was so poor the bar examiner said, "We have just got to let the guy through." We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever.Not true. It is only a beginning, always. The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. And so I say to you on this occasion, as we leave, we leave proud of the people who have stood by us and worked for us and served this country.We want you to be proud of what you have done. We want you to continue to serve in government, if that is your wish. Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.And so, we leave with high hopes, in good spirit, and with deep humility, and with very much gratefulness in our hearts. I can only say to each and every one of you, we come from many faiths, we pray perhaps to different gods -- but really the same God in a sense -- but I want to say for each and every one of you, not only will we always remember you, not only will we always be grateful to you but always you will be in our hearts and you will be in our prayers.Thank you very much.Richard M. Nixon - August 9, 1974。
水门事件
功败垂成
1972年6月18日，星期日。 温暖的 阳光，清新的海风，茂密的树林，松软的 沙滩，构成了一幅美妙的初夏海滨风景画。 画里还有错落有致的几幅别墅，那是美国 总统在佛罗里达的比斯凯恩湾的寓所。正 在这里度假的尼克松总统，心情和这天气、 景色一样的好。 4个月前的2月21日至27 日，尼克松总统在他的对外政策首席顾问 基辛格博士的陪同下，对中华人民共和国 进行了历史性的访问，从而结束了两国之 间20多年的敌对状态。此举赢得了世界舆 论的广泛赞扬和美国人民的普遍欢迎，尼 克松的声望大振。
东窗事发
为了取得民主党 民主党内部竞选策略的情报，1972年6月17日，以美国共 民主党 美国共 和党尼克松 尼克松竞选班子的首席安全问题顾问詹姆斯 麦科德 詹姆斯·麦科德 和党尼克松 詹姆斯 麦科德（James W. McCord, Jr.）为首的5人闯入位于华盛顿水门大厦 水门大厦的民主党全国委员会 水门大厦 全国委员会 办公室，在安装窃听器并偷拍有关文件时，当场被捕。 事件发生后尼克松曾一度竭力掩盖开脱，但在随后对这一案件的继 续调查中，尼克松政府的许多人被陆续揭发出来，并直接涉及到尼克松 本人，从而引发了严重的宪法危机 宪法危机。 宪法危机 1973年10月20日尼克松為了要罷免要求他交出證據的特別檢察官， 迫使拒絕解任特別檢察官的司法部長辭職，司法次長繼任司法部長後， 又因為拒絕罷免這位特別檢察官而辭職，最後第三任司法部長才答應罷 免特別檢察官，尼克松更動員FBI封鎖特別檢察官及司法長官、次長的 辦公室，宣佈廢除特別聯邦檢察局，把此案的調查權移回司法部。面對 尼克松濫用行政權力來維護自己，招來國民愤怒谴责。 10月31日，美国众议院决定由该院司法委员会 司法委员会负责调查、搜集尼克 司法委员会 松的罪证，为弹劾尼克松作准备。1974年6月25日，司法委员会决定公 布与弹劾尼克松有关的全部证据。7月底，司法委员会陆续通过了三项 弹劾尼克松的条款。尼克松于8月8日宣布将于次日辞职，从而成为美国 歷史上首位辞职的总统。
history as conspiracy
New words and phrases
By no means 绝不 Punctuate 强调 Distortion 失真，扭曲 Trace 追溯 Grand plot 大阴谋 Disrepute 不光彩，坏 名声 Dirty tricks 卑鄙手段 Speculation 推测 Crafted garment 精心 制造的外表 Allegation 辩解，主张 Fabricate 捏造 Skepticism 怀疑论
History as conspiracy
历史阴谋
ConspiracyConspiracy-thinking
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肯尼迪遇刺案发生于1963年11月22日星期五下午12:30， 美国第三十五任总统约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪在夫人杰 基·肯尼迪和得克萨斯州州长约翰·康纳利陪同下，乘坐敞 蓬轿车驶过得克萨斯州达拉斯的迪利广场（DealeyPlaza） 时，遭到枪击身亡。约翰·肯尼迪是美国历史上第四位遇 刺身亡的总统，也是第八位在任期内去世的总统。负责总 统遇刺案调查工作的沃伦委员会在经过了长达10个月的调 查之后，于1964年9月发表了一份官方报告，在此份报告 中指出，刺杀肯尼迪的凶手是得克萨斯州教科书仓库大楼 的雇员李·哈维·奥斯瓦尔德，正是他从教科书大楼六层上 的窗口向乘坐敞篷车正从楼下经过的总统开枪将其刺杀的。 迄今为止，肯尼迪遇刺案仍然存在着很多置疑，引起了人 们的广泛猜测，并且产生了许多关于肯尼迪遇刺案的理论。
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水门事件到底有多严重 竟然让尼克松辞去总统职务
水门事件到底有多严重竟然让尼克松辞去总统职务本文导读：水门事件(Watergate scandal)，是1970年代发生在美国的一场政治丑闻。
1972年民主党全国委员会位于华盛顿特区的水门综合大厦发现被人侵入，然而时任总统理查德·尼克松及内阁试图掩盖事件真相。
直至窃听阴谋被发现，尼克松仍然阻挠国会调查，最终导致宪政危机。
尼克松于1974年宣布辞去总统职务。
事件开始于1972年6月17日凌晨，当时美国民主党全国委员会所在地水门综合大厦的保安人员偶然发现，从地下车库通往大厦的门锁，两次遭人以胶布贴住，因此报警。
到场侦办的两名便衣特警意外抓获5个潜入民主党全国委员会总部安装窃听器和拍摄文件的嫌犯。
之后，联邦调查局找到了这伙人的活动资金，这些钱中有不少连号的百元大钞。
由此追查发现，其来源竟然是尼克松的筹款组织：总统竞选连任委员会的政治捐款和经费。
1973年7月，案件的证据，包括前白宫幕僚在联邦参议院水门委员会的证词都开始指向白宫幕僚。
而受到调查的白宫幕僚为了脱身，主动交代理查德·尼克松总统上任后曾在整个白宫安装由语音自动启动的录音系统，并录下白宫中几乎所有的谈话。
而根据对这些录音磁带进行监听后发现，尼克松在水门窃听案发前后，都曾经明示或暗示应该掩盖其上任后无论是由其本人还是下属所有过的一些并不完全合法的行动。
经过一系列的司法诉讼，联邦最高法院作出判决，要求总统必须交出录音带，尼克松总统最终服从了最高法院的判决。
面对国会众议院几乎可以肯定通过的弹劾总统的动议，并且也很可能会被参议院定罪，1974年8月9日，尼克松发表电视讲话正式宣布辞去美国总统职务。
杰拉尔德·福特继任成为新的美国总统后，于9月8日宣布赦免他一切刑事责任。
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The Election of 1968
Nixon campaigned as a champion of the "silent majority," the hardworking Americans who paid taxes, did not demonstrate, and desired a restoration of "law and order.” He vowed to restore respect for the rule of law, reconstitute the stature of America, dispose of ineffectual social programs, and provide strong leadership to end the turmoil of the 1960's.
Nixon and Watergate
The Election of 1968
Richard Nixon only narrowly won the 1968 election, but the combined total of popular votes for Nixon and Wallace indicated a shift to the right in American politics. The 1960's began as an era of optimism and possibility and ended in disunity and distrust. The Vietnam war and a series of assassinations and crises eroded public trust in government and produced a backlash against liberal movements and the Democratic party.
Woodward, Bernstein and the
Washington Post
Watergate came to public attention largely through the work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, investigative reporters from the Washington Post. Despite enormous political pressure, Post editor Ben Bradlee, publisher Katherine Graham, Woodward and Bernstein, aided by an enigmatic source nicknamed “Deepthroat” kept the story in the public consciousness until Nixon’s resignation.
James MWatergate Break-in
When initial polls showed Nixon in the Election of 1972, the Plumbers turned their activities to political espionage. On 17 June 1972, 5 men were arrested while attempting to bug the headquarters of the Democratic Party inside the Watergate building in Washington D.C. One of the men arrested, James McCord, was the head of security for the Republican Party. The Nixon campaign denied any involvement.
The White House Plumbers
Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
After the release of the Pentagon Papers, the White House created a unit to ensure internal security. This unit was called the Plumbers because they stopped leaks. In 1971 they burglarized the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, seeking material to discredit him. It was later revealed that Nixon’s domestic advisor John Ehrlichman knew of and approved the plan.
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg was an employee of the Defense Department who leaked a classified assessment of the Vietnam War in 1971. The 7,000 page document came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. They cast doubt on the justification for entry into the war and revealed that senior government officials had serious misgivings about the war. When the New York Times and Washington Post began to publish the Pentagon Papers, the Nixon Administration sued them. The Supreme Court ruled that the papers could continue to publish the documents.