watergate
... The Watergate scandal has been described as our “National Nightmare,” almost like an inkblot on our nation’s past. ... Beep Throat was sort of an anonymous do-gooder for the Watergate investigators. ... One thing that is almost certain about them was that they had close ties to the president or a high official and was able to confirm the Watergate story to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. ... This is partly why he acted so foolish when investigators had discovered he was behind the whole Watergate scandal. ... Nixon also made many false statements to the press and the public about his involvement in the Watergate affair, similar to the affair with the Clinton and Lewinsky. ... The Watergate and Lewinsky scandals are like big sores on our great countries past.