14. Watergate
What list of government lies would be complete without the Watergate scandal? Richard Nixon lied about many things while he was president, but the final straw was Watergate. Watergate refers to an official government complex in DC. One day, there were five burglars who broke into the building, allegedly to tap into communications and other top secret information. When the men were brought into court and tried, there was some investigating done on how they got in. As they followed the trails, they began to notice something suspicious: that the breaking of Watergate was an inside job. Eventually, they began following a cash trail (the burglars were funded for their work) and traced it all the way back to a committee that was the head honcho for Richard Nixon’s campaign and eventual presidency. Eventually, more evidence was discovered against Nixon’s officials, and they soon found evidence that Nixon himself tried to cover up the break-in and even attempted to throw investigating officials off of the trail. After threats of impeachment were thrown out, Nixon ended up resigning from his chair. Since then the term “Watergate” has represented many other scandals in world history, but it all started here.
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