Watergate - The Scandal that Took down the President

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[@belligerentinstigator944]

Can you do one on the spying on Trump thing? There is lots of information. Hard to keep track of.

[@Interdictiondeltawing]

Nam moment

[@davidspencer8373]

Like video

[@chill-lady-brook]

@@belligerentinstigator944 where? There is no information. This bs had been debunked.

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[@benjaminmcclelland2464]

My favorite part of the Watergate scandal is how they caught him by literally doing the same thing that they were accusing him of doing.

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

I used the scandal to destroy the scandal

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

All The Presidents Man release in 1976 4 years after Watergate scandal

[@mat-mat101]

Oh, the irony...

[@paulielamothe4134]

@Avalie Still two wrongs don't make a right.

[@APersonOnYouTubeX]

@@godwarrior3403 if you kill a killer You replace an evil killer with a CURRENTLY not evil killer This is the concept of Yin-Yang Light in the dark and darkness in teh light No matter what, Evil and Good will always be equal

[@Griggs133]

I remember going over this in HS and everytime the teacher mentioned that the informants name was "Deepthroat" the entire class busted out laughing.

[@yakkothedrillinstructor9052]

I don't blame them

[@House_MAL]

@@yakkothedrillinstructor9052 busted

[@umbrellacorps1133]

@@House_MAL Wait, was that a fucking pun?

[@House_MAL]

@@umbrellacorps1133 caught me red handed

[@thewolf6943]

Ya'll foking dirty minded students!!!

[@Mr.Nin10do.]

"SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE BREAKING IN!" Richard Nixon

[@ericahl]

This takes me back to simpler times.

[@alexanderherckenrath7099]

I got that reference!

[@adamwilliams434]

Ah yes... bring me back to the gold old days.

[@killercougar753]

Just a storm....nick sit down

[@gtrfan137kereere6]

Good old BO1 Zombies

[@christopherleckenby3494]

Back in the day when scandals actually took down presidents.

[@vasilije94]

Hahahaha so true. In my country even if politicians would decide to drop bombs on citizens it would still not lead to taking down the president. People just dont care anymore.

[@TheGabriel1351]

Now US have a president with dementia lol.

[@christopherleckenby3494]

@@TheGabriel1351 Which is even sadder when you consider that that's still a step up from the last guy.

[@TheGabriel1351]

@@christopherleckenby3494 Yoo we have someone with dementia that throw your economy out of the window but at least you don't have mean tweets anymore!

[@christopherleckenby3494]

@@TheGabriel1351 Don't take it out on me. I wanted Bernie to win. Then we'd have a good economy *and* no mean tweets. What a world that would be!

[@notfiction9241]

Fascinating, as a Brit my knowledge of watergate was pretty limited, nice to get to know the story.

[@MrGiygas1]

You should also watch the Luddy Does History channel. One of his recent videos is about Watergate

[@1truthbegettingtold275]

I am an American and I found out through the movie Forrest Gump.

[@self-proclaimednimwit2263]

My exact story haha

[@notfiction9241]

@@1truthbegettingtold275 Great scene. The people with the flashlight are keeping me awake lol

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

From Watergate to 1MDB gate scandal

[@erikledmad]

Imagine being the US president and get taken down by someone nicknamed “deep throat” lol

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

I think Clinton got taken down by something similar, if I'm not mistaken....

[@YlO414]

@@Frosty_tha_Snowman "I do not have sexual relations with that woman." "Clinton

[@monke.5450]

Pretty embarrassing to have your presidency ended by someone nicknamed "deep throat" lmfao

[@Jason.cbr1000rr]

@@YlO414 *looks ded pan in the camera/eyes* full on lying 😑🤣

[@sigurdbrattland7828]

@@monke.5450 That was the joke

[@Zharrgrim]

This dude KNEW this scandal would be in the history book and decided to be a legend and gave himself the callsign “Deepthroat.” Based Chad

[@Lawinenmann]

@@martyyoung3611 pfp checks out

[@cxarhomell5867]

@@martyyoung3611 Nice profile picture.

[@TU-mf2ut]

@UCVabwFvEo0GNKYIq-BUatSQ u mad Nixon got caught?

[@VictoireOuMort]

@@martyyoung3611 Too true

[@ndhart3213]

@@martyyoung3611 ?

[@anthonypeters6861]

By todays standards Nixon wasn't even close to a crook.

[@thewhitewolf58]

Trump made him look like an almost good boy

[@bustednutproductions7301]

@@thewhitewolf58 Hillary*

[@Spider_aaaahhh]

*both

[@hzchase7696]

@@thewhitewolf58 Biden*

[@helterskelter416]

@@bustednutproductions7301 *trump

[@Bombel3271]

In Poland we had almost THE SAME case one month ago. Ruling party was using Pegasus software to eavesdrop on opposition party. They even admited that they truly did that. And you know what happend? Nothing...

[@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming]

times have changed sadly, i mean look at the current administration in the U.S.......

[@jbone9900]

@@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming better then trumps or the corruption of party gate with boris johnson.

[@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming]

@@jbone9900 pretty sure at this point Trump is the cleanest politician out there, whole establishment wanted him gone and none of the legal channels worked, even though they were illegally spying on him too. as far as partygate I wouldn't be surprised if that was the whole british establishment involved, but on the plus side, restrictions are lifting now as a result

[@jbone9900]

@@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming funny stuff this clown put his family in government positions even tried to black mail Ukraine to investigate Bidens son.

[@lilbaxcon4520]

@@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming Lets be honest, both Joe Biden and Trump are the worst Presidents I've ever seen and should not go for re-election.

[@Skinwalkerxiv]

I love that he resigned over something politicians do openly now

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

Presidents today plant rec. devices in gov. buildings?

[@lolstalgic9602]

@@user-mg7wh8zq6v And in our cellphones... not that we care, apparently

[@okat32]

@@lolstalgic9602we do care. Its just all explained in the user agreement’s tiny papers which we can’t even read well

[@SirToaster9330]

He also committed treason

[@randomlyfactual1943]

​@@user-mg7wh8zq6vNope. They don't have to. Ever hear of Edward Snowden? So nobody inside America has the right to access the emails of any American citizen, without a warrant. The FBI, NSA or whoever can't say that because YOU look suspicious, they are going to read your mails or texts. They are however allowed to read your recipient's mail without a warrant if you send it abroad - your constitutional rights only applies to America. So the NSA found a loophole. Since Google/Yahoo or Microsoft servers were located all around the world, mail from someone in the US to another person in the US would often travel abroad via these servers. The NSA had programmes to retrieve those mails, effectively circumventing the Constitution and accountability to the American people.

[@warhawkplane9564]

If Nixon had put Forrest Gump in a different hotel instead of the Watergate he could have been able to be re elected president 🇺🇸

[@jigsawgamer_9396]

i don't get it i never watched Forrest Gump

[@remenir97]

@@jigsawgamer_9396 forrest Gump was in Watergate and accidentally caused the scandal by calling the police about the burglary he saw.

[@monarchist1838]

Eh he was re-elected. This occurred during his second term.

[@99batran]

@@jigsawgamer_9396 Forrest Gump is a fictional film about a man at the center of a lot of important events and met a lot of important people in the late 1900s. For example, I know he once met JFK in a white house dinner party after his football team won an important game (because he was so good at running) and told him "I gotta pee" after drinking all the soda at the snack bar. In one particular scene, Forrest Gump met Richard Nixon after the President gave Forrest a "player of the year" reward for the national table tennis team (played against China) and allowed him to stay in a hotel room which so happens to be next to the place where Watergate took place (Forrest reported seeing strange lights and probably noises coming from a building nearby because it caused him to have trouble sleeping)

[@ZekeorSomething]

The Watergate happened two years after his relelection

[@bigpunchee]

I cant help but laugh he chose "Deep Throat" as his codename 😭

[@Gameflyer001]

Not a coincidence, because the adult film of the same name was released in 1972 to massive acclaim. It also intimated that he was high up in the intelligence community, and had a lot of intel to provide on the issue, hence the name.

[@ernestov1777]

He should do a video about Lyndon B Johnson too. America's most underrated President.

[@hltco920]

@@ernestov1777 because of Johnson's enormous.... johnson?

[@guamazolopez6456]

@@ernestov1777 he was racist and brought drugs into the u.s. he also poorly managed a lot of things. He's overrated if you ask me

[@ernestov1777]

@@guamazolopez6456 For being a racist, he surely did anti racist things like the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights act mate..

[@xpld5017]

"You might want to send a maintenance man over to that office across the way. The lights are off and they must be looking for a fuse box or something because their flashlights are keeping me awake"

[@carlosthedeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

im glad forrest gump reported it because nobody would know

[@Newdivide]

Forrest gump

[@ives3572]

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job." - Richard M. Nixon

[@isaac2987]

Watergate is so complex. I tried learning the parts of it for a whole day, and didn't understand it at all. This is an iceberg that goes on and on and on

[@Butter_Warrior99]

I'ma be honest, I don't get why Nixon was so paranoid. It's clear that citizens are the time like him, so I'm baffled by why he even took part in it.

[@bunnygirlerika9489]

Probably as part of an undiagnosed mental disorder, or even just stress.

[@Butter_Warrior99]

@@bunnygirlerika9489, Still I just find it sad if that's the case.

[@sheeplord4976]

Maybe he was looking for something like ties between the democrats and media or some other deep state stuff. We will never know.

[@bosertheropode5443]

He literally won 49 out of 50 states. What a shame.

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

Because democrats can't be trusted

[@diligentone-six2688]

It wasn't just the Watergate scandal he did. Before he was elected, he spoke to a South Vietnamese official during Negotiation talks, he told them to reject anything and he would help the achieve their primary goals. What he did, was a Crime and it is already considered Treason for interfering in Negotiations.

[@vasaradragonsbane5580]

That's ok, It's Murica! They never get tried for war crimes. Ever. lol

[@teddy4653]

@@vasaradragonsbane5580 💪💪

[@Nobody-forreal]

Exactly, he caused the death of even more people by prolonging the Vietnam war.

[@melviness4769]

Why did Nixon want to continue the war?

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

reject anything?

[@SlurryNoises]

I've tried to figure out what the watergate scandal was about in the past but never got a clear concise answer. Thanks a bunch for making it simple and clear in this video~

[@Vuden13]

What is it then bich

[@isaiahjt07gaming83]

AYO

[@hellrock]

I thought it had something to do with water and plumbing

[@seldenmaroon1071]

I saw this piece of history in Forrest Gump and me, not an American, wondered what all this was about. Thank you for this video to help me understand better

[@LuisLopez-fq5sz]

If I may what are you from

[@shem7146]

@@LuisLopez-fq5sz *where

[@goddamnweeaboofuck311]

48 years ago, Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes and Hugh Scott told Nixon he had lost the support of his fellow Republicans. Compare that to the ectoplasm-levels of spinelessness shown by current GOP Congressional leaders like Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins or Kevin McCarthy.

[@jaidengabriel1675]

Or by party leaders in general, it's pretty disappointing

[@ct-1177]

@@jaidengabriel1675 Both political parties?

[@kevinaguado1650]

@@ct-1177 yes both political parties btw the left has the left shill for them 24/7 so give me a break on how democrats are good and Republicans racist

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

didnt susan collins oppose trump?

[@panda530]

@@ct-1177 Tried not to use "both side argument" because right now the Republican is full of crooks, fanatics and idiots.

[@monarchist1838]

Nixon should have been honest from the beginning. There would have been a negative backlash, but I think he would have been permitted to finish his second term.

[@Michael-uf1hz]

Its politics man, its dog eat dog. This video does take alot of liberties as well though. Although Nixon was obviously aware of the watergate scandal he was never tied to orchestrating it. Pretty crazy how right now the same sorta thing is going on with Clinton. Another important factor was the media, being left wing used every moment of airtime to directly blame nixon which was untrue. Funny how fox news is doing the same exact thing now to Hillary. It was the media that directly swayed the populations opinion of the scandal and blew it out of proportion.

[@stevew6138]

I agree, had he done so, the American public might have had enough respect for honesty.....................

[@godwarrior3403]

No definitely not.

[@spike339]

@@Michael-uf1hz The US media in the 60’s/70’s was “left wing”?… The same media promoting the red scare and discrediting the civil rights movement at the exact time period?

[@Michael-uf1hz]

@@spike339 the spectrum of liberalism of the 60s was far more conservative than it was today, just look a Democratic presidents policies of that time period, heck even Clinton was far more conservative than his modern counterparts, my belief is the media had a story to discredit the sitting president who they did not like, placing him as the mastermind behind the crime. Nixon for his part was rather authoritarian attempting to not release the tapes and the firings, but I think most presidents would have done this to save their administration. What are your thoughts?

[@TheoHawk316]

"What's the difference between Watergate and a cow?" "You can't milk a cow for 50+ years"

[@zumis1011]

It only gets mentioned when there's a new scandal "biggest scandal since Watergate"

[@falchion1966]

It's called history. Don't go canceling it.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

Partygate scandal

[@ollikoskiniemi6221]

In America, every scandal is a gate, and everything is a war. War on drugs, war on terror, war on homelessness, war on crime, etc. Gates and wars everywhere. Spygate, russiagate, pizzagate, oralofficegate, benghazigate, yada yada.

[@thestarwarsmusiccomposer3491]

YOU'RE SOOO DIRTY MINDED🤣🤣🤣

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

To think this would never have happened if it weren't for a well-meaning Alabama man who just wanted to sleep...

[@GhemourMoncef]

I heard he runs a shrimping business with his old LT from the army

[@sialmeckerjr]

​@vrtxte ...still runnin

[@philosophichuman1507]

Finally! I've been trying to figure out the simple history behind this Scandal for years.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

50 years ago, Watergate scandal in 1972 during the US President Richard Nixon. 42 years later, 1MDB scandal in 2015 during the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak

[@angelofthedeath2433]

*Ba Dum tss!!*

[@Cheezymuffin.]

Man, the goverment being untrustworthy? Unbelievable!

[@aleisterlavey9716]

Unprecedented...incredible.

[@JangianTV]

@@aleisterlavey9716 Unpresidented*

[@bradley8575]

The 1960a changed the perception of the US government by Americans began a distrust for the government.

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

No way the guy's callsign was "deepthroat" That dude was getting memed

[@emberfist8347]

Yes it was. We also know who he really was. FBI associate director Mark Feld who knew Woodward from their time in the navy and wasn’t happy with how the FBI was now being run.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

The most legendary scandal in American history also your nixon impersonation was amazing

[@truthjunkie63]

Lol.

[@neverleft636]

“Who went by the name, Deep Throat”. That’s where I LOST IT hahaha.

[@Gloria-victrix99857]

Deepthroat: Call me... Deepthroat. Solid Snake: Deep throat? The Informant at the Watergate scandal?

[@nicknmm09]

If nixon had done this today theres no way he would've resigned he'd had too much partisan support

[@lochnessmonsta2981]

Yeah, like Clinton and Obama in this most recent case of spying on a political opponent.

[@ejs3589]

@@lochnessmonsta2981 Nixon's corruption was able to be proved in court...You keep saying those things with no proof at all.

[@randomuser5443]

@@ejs3589 Durham report

[@ElitePanCake645]

His supporters would be yelling Nixon 1976, 1980, and forever.

[@BenHopkins1000]

Yeah, but the media would still crucify him…

[@michaelphelan423]

I attended a dinner once where a member of the Nixon administration said that Nixon may have been one of the most brilliant presidents ever, but he had a very dark, paranoid side to him

[@Nobody-forreal]

Nixon prolonged the Vietnam war to get elected by telling the president of south Vietnam to withdraw from the peace talks with north Vietnam. The war could've ended 1969 but Nixon chose to cause the death of even more soldiers and civilians just to become president. This is treason and it is good that he resigned.

[@adammetzger4182]

"I am not a crook." - A crook.

[@divad23]

I always heard of “watergate” in pop culture but never knew what it actually referred to or the back story…so thanks for creating the content!

[@cyberwolf2383]

I never fully understood the watergate scandal. Thank you simple history

[@ives3572]

"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon

[@zherean42069]

He's like joe biden

[@MrImastinker]

@@zherean42069 You mispelled Donald "the authority is total and that’s the way it’s got to be" Trump.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@MrImastinker Trump lives rent free in your head NPC.

[@MrImastinker]

@@mojewjewjew4420 Or maybe I'm just not fond of a lying, narcissistic and incompetent jackass who spends months lying about his election loss, leading to an attack on our nation's capitol which could have seen members of Congress killed. The guy had no business being in the White House.

[@lolstalgic9602]

@@MrImastinker No no... he got it right the first time.

[@youngmasterzhi]

Unfun fact: The Watergate scandal was only openly revealed, thanks to an unsung hero named Frank Wills, who was working as a security guard in the Watergate hotel’s office complex in June 17 1972. As he was making his rounds, he noticed a piece of duct tape covering a lock of a basement office and decided to remove it. When he came back to check on it again, he found the lock was taped again. Suspicious, he called in police to report the mysterious occurrence. Two undercover cops named John Barrett and Paul Leeper came to the hotel in plain clothes and in an unmarked car to avoid arousing suspicious and proceeded to scour the hotel for any doors marked with duct tape. They were lucky to find evidence of a secret wire-tapping, bugging and intelligence operation, because a Watergate lookout named Alfred Baldwin (who was supposed to ensure the spy operation was not sabotaged) was too occupied on watching “Attack of the Puppet People” on his television set. By the time he caught sight of Barrett and Leeper breaking into doors leading to the secret operations, it was too late to radio his colleagues about the immediate compromise.

[@ales8187]

nah we all know it was Forrest Gump

[@CJ_1406]

"Sounds like someone breaking in!" - Richard Nixon, COD: Zombies - Five

[@ryanbauer3680]

I've heard that W. Mark Felt became Bob Woodward's source out of spite after he was passed over for promotion. That promotion would have had him succeeding J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI.

[@MCPOSJ117films]

They should do a video on j Edgar Hoover. He was an incredibly sussy man.

[@dino0228]

Sounds like another planted falsehood.

[@emberfist8347]

@@dino0228No Felt was indeed Deepthroat. People were suspecting him for years before he confirmed his involvement in 2005. He also went to Woodward specifically because they were in the Navy together.

[@paulnash6944]

“The American public criticized the president for trying to save his reputation.” Can you blame him, though? If was forced to retire from my job in disgrace, I’d want to say something about it too.

[@oluftheexplorer9476]

Could also just not have been a crook, thus not having to try and save face later down the line

[@paulnash6944]

@@oluftheexplorer9476 You have a point, but if we’re really a democratic society, we need to let the disgraced say their peace before we can come to a proper conclusion. Besides, what he did was no different from previous scandals, Nixon was just the one called out for it.

[@oluftheexplorer9476]

@@paulnash6944 Democracy is a sham and an illusion. We the people have literally no power whatsoever.

[@FretfulClown95]

@@oluftheexplorer9476 Please stop with your victim centric ideals, you have as much power as your voice and your vote.

[@FretfulClown95]

He tried to save his reputation by misrepresenting the truth as to make himself look better.

[@TU-mf2ut]

"he he, amateur." Bush signing the Patriot Act.

[@liquidn3957]

Awesome video! Super informative and cool fun animations. I checked this out after I listened to the Half Baked History podcast episode on Watergate. Glad Butterfield spilled the beans

[@garrus7221]

Back again with my request. I'd love to see a video about the British soldier eric harden, during the liberation of the netherlands in 1945 there was a slaughter at a field, it was mid winter and reinforcements were ways out. There were alot of injured people in the battlefieldlfield freezing and beelding to death, eric left base camp and ran out mutliple times saving people. Every time he ran out he got shot at and hit mutliple times. After being ordered not to go back out. He went another time but this time he got shot in the head by a sniper. For his heroic deeds he was given the victoria cross

[@ZekeorSomething]

Ironically my Civics teacher taught us about this last week when we were learning about Supreme Court cases

[@charlessaint7926]

Wanted to tap and record other people's private conversations, gets caught by recordings of his own private conversations. Irony.

[@Ray2Jerry]

This video is 9 mins long... the ad is 1:15 minutes. That means more than 1/10th of the video is the ad. KZbin rules!

[@The_-_-]

The animations are getting better and better. Keep up the good work guys!

[@smokingthereefer92]

I am new here. Been watching your WWII videos. I am making a suggestion about a WWII soldier named William "Bill" Millin. A Scottish soldier who was armed on Normandy with a knife & a set of bagpipes. German POW's would later state that they didn't kill him because they thought he had gone mad.

[@sontapaa11jokulainen94]

Amazing animation, writing and narration!

[@pahaihminen1]

Of course, they had Grammarly

[@guiscardusx7752]

I love simple history’s very own Nixon impression, on the money with it.

[@Lexie-bq1kk]

Oh, you mean President's aren't supposed to be above the law? How novel. How interesting.

[@Hispanic2A-1776]

These events sound familiar. Almost as if something similar happened just recently. 🤔

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

@Saying N*igro Makes KZbin Cry Hi, fascist! On a scale of 1 to 10 how, disappointed are you that your bigoted orange hero didn't succeed and his attempt to put an end to our democracy?

[@randomuser5443]

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Who is supporting big business and their subversion of the constitution

[@Hispanic2A-1776]

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 The United States is a republic, not a democracy.

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 saying Trump wants to ruin democracy while voting for Biden is hilarious

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 mean tweets go brrrrrrr

[@thomasmarciano6133]

A proper epitaph would be a scene taken from Oliver Stones "Nixon" (1995), where a young anti-war protester points out that the arena of politics is like a wild animal, and Nixon agrees with her...

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

In All The President's Man in 1976 where the based true story between 2 reporter from The Washington Post, Robert "Bob" Woodward playing by Robert Redford & Carl Bernstein playing by Dustin Hoffman into the investigation of Watergate scandal during the President Richard Nixon administration era in 1972 4 years ago.

[@natasatrifan8828]

​@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401❤

[@GigaChadlovesandcares]

“I am not a crook” Mr President said, turned out that Nixon indeed was a crook lmao.

[@falchion1966]

Another Republican

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

i love how they had it in disney world

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@falchion1966 ehh to be fair republicans gave nixon a lot of flack for watergate

[@falchion1966]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833 they had higher standards then.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@falchion1966 it was more that they had more factions and were more spread through nowadays everyone has to agree with the party line which is why the only republicans that openly opposed trump were the big guys like bush , mcCaine ,and romeny

[@phillipanthonyiidelossanto441]

"Any man who must say 'I am not a crook' is a true crook."

[@DorvellTStewart]

Back when the GOP actually had the balls to stand up to a US president from their party and demand he be held accountable.

[@jellythejellyfish7035]

1:38 I can't take this guy seriously anymore. Had to pause to recollect myself

[@Free_Krazy]

So your telling me this all started with a guy who went by the code name "Deep Throat"? Okay.

[@martyyoung3611]

A jew.

[@Alex240N]

@@martyyoung3611 your mom is a jew.

[@grand_tourist46]

Well, this one’s certainly been a long time coming.

[@hollaxpino]

Everytime I hear about nixon , futurama always comes to mind 😂

[@blacksuperman209]

Haaaa brrrraaggghh. He always shakes his neck 😂

[@amadeus7677]

3:46 everytime i watched these videos the ambience sounds of people speaking gibberish always cracks me up

[@danielsonhud48]

Funny that was in the 70’s and yet a few years back when all 50ish gig of the atom bomb test footage was declassified and released I downloaded the lot ...after watching several hours of it, you could easily tell the original was heavily edited! Things don’t change 🤔

[@awesomehpt8938]

Can you move in straight lines on a chessboard? “I’m not a rook!”

[@ryanh4499]

Do a video on Nixon's bizarre meeting with Elvis Presley!

[@niteshades_promise]

i think he was given a badge n clearance that made him able to legally carry drugs threw airports.🤔🍻

[@ryanh4499]

@@niteshades_promise That's what he was hoping!

[@ironroad18]

Nixon illegally negotiated on behalf of the US while running as a political candidate in 1968. He used Madam Chenault as intermediaries and asked the South Vietnamese government to hold out during peace negotiations with the communists. LBJ and the Justice Department knew this, but LBJ elected not to act on the information as he didn't want to expose government's wiretapping of the anti-war movement. Nixon ran on a "Peace with Honor" platform and the Democrats lost. He then became ultra paranoid, and then became obsessed with government leakers and his own staff plotting behind his back, all the while keeping the government surveillance programs going. In the end he caught himself in one of his own traps.

[@byenye6386]

Hello everyone and simple history hope everyone is having a good Monday

[@makjusufbegovic8186]

6:22 Good Nixon impersonation. I can’t wait to hear the next impersonation.

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

Richard Nixon: Possibly the only single person in U.S. history to have successfully thrown _two_ presidential elections.

[@bagelsecelle9308]

We all know it was Forest Gump who shed light in this scandal

[@fabiandimaspratamathesecond]

No. It was two high school girls 😋

[@joeyakathug5215]

People are too young to know this referrence

[@THEBOOMER110]

I lost it when he did the voice, reminded me of Nixon's head in Futurama lol.

[@vinceknowseverything]

Lovin' the Sound Design💙 Excellent Work Simple History😊

[@liamlachance9951]

Fun fact, one of the burglars was frank strugis, who was coincidentally was dressed as a hobo in Dallas, Texas on nov. 22 1963, the same day JFK was shot, and he was just behind a building that was by the dealer plaza where jfk was shot,

[@redjirachi1]

The most hilarious part of the scandal is that the election would be an enormous landslide in Nixon's favor. Nixon basically destroyed himself over nothing

[@Victoryoverourdarkness]

Well actually the CIA destroyed him

[@wardog6275]

Update 2023: They should change the name “Watergate” to “Nothing-burger”

[@pantampram4836]

The voice behind the narration is gold

[@SuperColonel91]

"I am Not A Crook!" Lol! Classic!

[@Hendo56]

According to the new book out on Watergate, Butterfield wasn't all that reluctant to mention the taping system. Talking to his wife the night before, she got the distinct feeling he was going to mention it. Nixon had harangued a number of lower staffers, along with Butterfield, who was quite fed up by this time.

[@anytimeanywhere7859]

And, having expended the last vestiges of any sort of creativity, the journalists of the USA then decreed that all scandals there after would use the format "______gate".

[@adrianjagerarraya1343]

You should follow it up with Durham's findings. From dark to liQht

[@JAB6322]

Somewhere in the Watergate building, Forrest Gump was calling for the maintenance crew, unintentionally exposing the scandal lol

[@Odysseus_King_of_Ithica]

I loved the forest gump pass at Forest being the one who foiled it... lol. Still cracks me up.

[@josephesquivel4066]

Deep Throat was the name given by the press, it certainly was not Mark Felt's choice for a cover name

[@josephesquivel4066]

@Saying N*igro Makes KZbin Cry Bob Woodward mentioned he was pretty pissed about it.

[@BiBiren]

That's one way to call someone gay in the 1970s😂

[@jeremyweaver7689]

All I hear whenever I see Nixon is his character from Futurama. AROO

[@moappleseider1699]

lol love it.

[@michaeltheundeadmariachi4494]

"Aroo, maybe so, but I know the one place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat"

[@user-mb3dx5fl9f]

Ppl really underestimate how good of a president Nixon was.

[@vasilije94]

I hope that is sarcasm.

[@Glitchfaction]

@@vasilije94 he was actually an amazing leader

[@vasilije94]

@@Glitchfaction in what way?

[@MachoImmigrant]

Crazy that I’m learning about this now today.

[@augustferdinand6462]

"Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth" -Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1974

[@niteshades_promise]

"i hope neil young will remember..."🎸🍻

[@wildbill7267]

Wish Trump/DeSantis/Thomas would get taken down. This country is dying 😢

[@Victoryoverourdarkness]

Yeah thanks to Joe Biden it’s dying

[@TheTechnicalArea19]

Everyone: We caught you spying on the Democrats! Nixon: How'd ya do that? Everyone: By spying on you.

[@dwatts64]

8:45 and yet he gets to be remembered as a sort of folk hero, while Snowden has to hide out in foreign countries from his own government for revealing that the government was doing all of these things (and far more) to anyone and everyone.

[@attiepollard7847]

Because Snowden revealed government surveillance information that he had no business doing. He better be lucky that he was not found out sooner because he would have had a bullet in his head and rightfully so.

[@ezefinkielman4672]

Any government spying on citizens is a crime. Clear violation of the of constitution. Snowden is a hero.

[@attiepollard7847]

@@ezefinkielman4672 no he is not. Whether you like it or not sometimes the government does have a justificial cause to have more or less wiretaps it's just that cannot present that in a court of law to prosecute that citizen. A warrantless wiretap surveillance can be used just as another source of fighting crime.

[@ollikoskiniemi6221]

@@attiepollard7847 And did the former associate director of the FBI have any business spying on Nixon? No he did not, but he supposedly broke the rules for a higher good, exactly just like what Snowden supposedly did.

[@attiepollard7847]

@@ollikoskiniemi6221 did the former FBI director reveal the way we spy on people to the public like an activist like Edward Snowden? No he did not.

[@Mr.__Cool]

1:20 if you wanna skip the ad about grammarly

[@GameTavern2224]

brilliant animations and great topic to cover. thank you Simple History.

[@turdferguson9356]

those White House Tapes are definitely worth a listen... you're never gonna laugh harder than you will listening to Richard Nixon musing on the sexualities of Roman emperors :]

[@MrSonicAdvance]

Now do a video on the bugging of President Trump.

[@juleswinnfield9097]

Goes against the ruling class, not allowed to. Trump was being spied on during his campaigning and presidency by both Clinton and Obama, had a falsified connection with Russia made by Clinton to sabotage his power with help from msm, (with more bullshit thrown at him), and all the establishment does is not talk about it.

[@moappleseider1699]

@@juleswinnfield9097 What a surprise lol.

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

@@juleswinnfield9097 If he was being spied on, that's awesome. All enemies of American democracy should be spied on, especially Trump.

[@chill-lady-brook]

@@juleswinnfield9097 damn this whole comment section is right wing idiots isn’t it?

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 that type of attitude is what led the NSA to spy anyone

[@pokefan-ix7sh]

The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building. After the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the U.S. Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Nixon re-election campaign committee.[1][2] Further investigations, along with revelations during subsequent trials of the burglars, led the U.S. House of Representatives to grant its judiciary committee additional investigation authority to probe into "certain matters within its jurisdiction",[3][4] and the U.S. Senate to create a special investigative committee. The resulting Senate Watergate hearings were broadcast "gavel-to-gavel" nationwide by PBS and aroused public interest.[5] Witnesses testified that Nixon had approved plans to cover up administration involvement in the break-in, and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office.[6][7] Throughout the investigation, the administration resisted its probes, which led to a constitutional crisis.[8] Several major revelations and egregious presidential action against the investigation later in 1973 prompted the House to commence an impeachment process against Nixon.[9] The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Nixon had to release the Oval Office tapes to government investigators. The tapes revealed that Nixon had conspired to cover up activities that took place after the break-in and later tried to use federal officials to deflect the investigation.[10][11] The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It is believed that, if he had not done so, he would have been impeached by the House and removed from office by a trial in the Senate.[12][13] He is the only U.S. president to have resigned from office. On September 8, 1974, Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, pardoned him. There were 69 people indicted and 48 people-many of them top Nixon administration officials-convicted.[14] The metonym 'Watergate' came to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration, including bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious; ordering investigations of activist groups and political figures; and using the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Internal Revenue Service as political weapons.[15] The use of the suffix "-gate" after an identifying term has since become synonymous with public scandal, especially political scandal.

[@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401]

4 years later, finally did to big screen in All The President's Man

[@Bushido1389]

5:20 that song is quiet a vibe, name ?

[@MrTacosBD]

"I am not a crook" line hits different when I heard about Nick Bryant's research on Watergate.

[@11superstar1997]

Imagine if somebody stood up like this against the Biden administration

[@kroppconstruction1147]

is nobody gonna talk about how this dude named himself 'Deep Throat' 😭

[@Vault87Fallout]

it's fun to know that this was once taboo now it is just politics.

[@haydenk6459]

It’s gotta be the easiest paycheck ever to have a text to speech read your sponsor. I’m tryna get like you my boy

[@damiencrossley7497]

History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes -Mark Twain