What is the Watergate Scandal?
The Watergate scandal was when the committee to re-elect President Richard Nixon was implicated in the break in at the Watergate office of the Democratic National Committee in 1972. This scandal eventually brought congressional hearings and the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment. The term xxxxxgate (insert political wrong doing where the xxxxx are) became a generic term used for any kind of political wrong doing.
