Worldcrunch
Updated August 8, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon resigned from the U.S. presidency on this day in 1974. Why did Richard Nixon resign? Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal, which was a series of illegal activities conducted by members of his administration. The scandal involved a […]
Updated Nov. 5, 2023 at 12:35 p.m. It was 55 years ago today. Some say this was the day the 1960s ended (or really began…)? The man who would eventually bring shame on the White House, resigning after the Watergate scandal, was already dividing opinion when he ran for President for the second time in […]
-Analysis- The W-word has been dropped. The first to mention it was France’s far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in an interview with Le Monde. He was quickly followed by his far-right counterpart Marine Le Pen. And soon enough, journalists around the world, from Germany to Latin America by way of Portugal and others, were joining in: […]
The Watergate complex may be the most famous building in Washington, D.C. for the wrong reasons — and we didn’t even have to break in to visit it!
WASHINGTON – It’s called the “curse of the second term.” American political commentators can go through each of the past two-term presidents and point to an unexpected phenomenon, a political error or some other trip wire set off in the second four-year stint in office. All the occupants of the White House have experienced it, […]