Watergate

Part I of Essay
Emery begins his book by telling about how Nixon and his campaign managers were going to do whatever it took to win the presidential election for his second term. The bugging and the telephone tapes were all part of this. Nixon was a very paranoid person thinking that eve ....

Part II of Essay
.... McGovern was the opponent that Nixon really wanted because he figured he could beat him pretty easy. Having both Houses of Congress being controlled by the opposite party, Nixon became very fearful of being a one-term President. John Edgar Hoover was the leader of the F.B.I. at the time of the affair. Hoover was a legend in his own time and was very feared by many. Nixon said that he had a very close relationship with Hoover and that he supported him a lot. Hoover was said to be a man who you can really trust. Nixon knew that Hoover wa ....