Abstract
The Watergate scandal is a political scandal that occurred between 1972 and 1974 in the United States. It begins with the break-in of the democratic national committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington. It then became a scandal because Nixon and his administration tried to hide their involvement, and because we later discovered that it was just one part in a plan against the democratic party. After years of investigations, in which the press had a great role this scandal led to Nixon's resignation. It was the first and only one resignation of a president of the United States in all the history of the country.
The very first moment in this whole Watergate affair was the break-in; it was the event that triggered the huge political scandal that came after.
First, the Watergate is a very big hotel in Washington D.C.
On June 17, 1972, at precisely 2.30 in the morning, five men were arrested inside the offices of the Democratic Party National Committee located in the Watergate building (James McCord, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez and Bernard Baker.) They were caught attempting to bug the offices' phones and to steal top-secret documents. It was Frank Wills, the security guard working at the Watergate Hotel, who found evidence of the break-in and called the police. The men would be convicted of the break-in in January 1973.
