By the time the Watergate scandal erupted, after the 1972 election, Moynihan was in New Delhi.
But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation.
Because of the Watergate scandal the Nixon Administration was unable to secure proper funding for the South Vietnamese.
But based on what we know so far, this is no Watergate scandal.
Ms Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate, compared the hacking to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.
He contrasted the affair with the Watergate scandal in which a "brave" newspaper - the Washington Post - "protected the public".
Just like the Democrats in 1974, they were trying to link all the Republicans to President Nixon and the Watergate scandal.
At the time, the country was coming out of the Watergate scandal.
Carter won after the Watergate scandal with the help of new forces in U.S. politics such as the biggest national teachers union.
"I am not a crook, " he said in 1973, clearly lying through his teeth as his government stood knee deep in the crooked dealings of the Watergate scandal.
Cheney noted that what he called these "limitations" on executive power were put in place during the denouement of the Vietnam War and the early phases of the Watergate scandal.
The White House and Congress must tackle campaign finance reform and attempt to restore some of the system that had been put into place as a result of the Watergate scandal.
By all accounts, there was no question the Republicans were going to have a brutal year, with President Nixon enmeshed in the Watergate scandal and a Democratic Congress breathing down his neck.
He believes it is no coincidence that this trend began shortly after the Watergate scandal, in which the White House was forced to release tape recordings of President Richard Nixon's profanity-strewn tirades.
The Rodham biopic by Young II Kim is set during the height of the Watergate scandal and features young lawyer Hillary Rodham as she is chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to impeach Nixon.
He said she would be most remembered for two events: publishing the Pentagon Papers in 1971 even after the New York Times was told it couldn't, and for hiring Bradlee and backing him up during the Watergate scandal.
President Johnson used the room in 1968 to tell Americans he would not seek re-election and President Nixon gave several speeches regarding the Watergate scandal, including his decision to resign from the presidency in the wake of Watergate in 1974.
When President Ford was faced with a Supreme Court vacancy shortly after the nation was still recovering from the Watergate scandal, he wanted a nominee who was brilliant, non-ideological, pragmatic, and committed above all to justice, integrity, and the rule of law.
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This year award-winning American journalist Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal in the Washington Post in 1972, will reflect on the Barack Obama administration and the American anniversaries of Gettysburg (150th), the Vietnam war (40th) and President John F Kennedy's assassination (50th).
The law -- a product of the Watergate scandal that first went into effect in 1978 -- requires the attorney general to seek the appointment of an independent counsel when there is substantial evidence of possible wrongdoing by top federal officials, including the president.
Richard Nixon announced that his administration would "answer to God, to history and to our conscience for the way in which we use these years", which was giving a serious hostage to fortune, for the impending Watergate scandal meant there would soon be plenty of answering to be done.
One possible explanation for USC's conservative label dates to the early 1970s, when several conservative Republican alumni, known as the "USC mafia, " served on President Nixon's White House staff or in his 1972 re-election campaign, which was later tainted by revelations of "dirty tricks" as part of the Watergate scandal.
Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate" scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign.
Following Watergate, a scandal far worse than what we have seen thus far, Congress and the president adopted a number of major government reforms that included a new campaign finance system, ethics rules, the Office of the Independent Counsel, and much more.
Anyway, as a sequel to Watergate, the Clinton scandal cannot hope to compete.
As we wrote Friday, this will be a scandal like Watergate if it turns out that the IRS was acting under orders from Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett.
But when Senator Obama tells crowds this is our moment, he means a new generation of Americans who do not treat politics like an oldie station, replaying every conflict as Vietnam, every scandal as Watergate and every issue as black and white.
It was a time of jarring social and political turmoil in America: the pain of the civil rights movement still fresh, U.S. troops finally home from an unpopular war in Vietnam, a scandal known as Watergate on the verge of toppling the most powerful man in the free world.
To be sure, some of Obama's antagonists will overreach by framing every scandal as the next Watergate and each revelation as an impeachable offense.
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