Watergate Break-Act Pros And Cons

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How would you feel if you lived in a house that was filled with cameras? where ever you went in your house you were being watched. That everything you said or did in your own home you were watched by someone else. As well as everything you would do on a computer or cell phone was being monitored and stored by someone. That in the end you didn't have not one single bit of privacy in your home.

Did you know that back then even the government did not have any privacy. A historical example would be the Watergate Break-in. It involved President Nixon secretly recording every conversation that was held in his office. That when it got out to the public it created massive controversy. That in the end congress had to do something and led to President Nixon to become the first ever president to resign from office which shocked the nation.
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What occurred in the Watergate hotel back in the 70’s were when five men one who was a former CIA employee broke into the Democratic National Committee room and offices and tried to bug the entire room. However in the end all five men were caught and arrested and weren’t able to accomplish their goal. Which lead to an investigation that would later be connected to the president and lead to him being the first ever president of the United States to resign from office. “In 1973 a man called Alexander Butterfield told the senate investigators that were investigating the watergate scandal that president nixon had been recording tape in his office since 1971”, according to the washington