cover up illegal actions by himself and his administration which further angered the American people. In June 1972‚ five men sporting cameras and bugging equipment were charged with arrest within the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex in Washington‚ D.C. Soon after the authorities discovered that the burglars were employed‚ directly or indirectly‚ for the Committee to Re-Elect the President. President Nixon and heads of his campaign denied any and all connections with
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the United States. The energy crisis‚ combined with more interest in environmentalism‚ brought about a rise in interest in alternative sources of energy and fuel efficiency. Politically‚ the government struggled to deal with the crisis. The Watergate scandal erupted
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Corporate Scandal I. Olympus Updated: April 20‚ 2012 Olympus Corporation‚ founded in 1919‚ is a manufacturer of digital cameras and electronic equipment. Based in Tokyo‚ the multibillion-dollar company has operations worldwide. In mid-October 2011‚ Olympus was rocked by scandal when its former chief executive and president‚ Michael C. Woodford‚ who is British‚ was suddenly fired. The company’s chairman‚ Tsuyoshi Kikukawa‚ blamed a culture clash‚ but Mr. Woodford‚ a 30-year Olympus employee‚
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had its ups and downs. The Watergate scandal could be considered a moment of disgust. On June 17‚ 1972 five men were caught breaking into the Watergate complex in Washington D.C.‚ trying to photograph documents and place wiretaps on the telephones in the office. At that point the White House should have forced those people to resign but instead began to cover it up because Nixon relied so heavily on those workers. In the end Nixon was forced resign because the scandal was uncovered. That is a moment
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Watergate: The affair began on June 17‚ 1972‚ when the local police arrested five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. The police found on the burglars a slush fund used by the committee for the re-election of the President Richard Nixon and listening devices. They look secrets agents more than burglars. As Washington is a federal district‚ the affair was charged to the F.B.I. Within hours after that‚ the F.B.I discovered a
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with a scandal the likes of which hadn’t been seen since Andrew Jackson was impeached more than a century previous. A second term president who opened trade to China‚ ended the longest war in American history and was the nation’s frontrunner when the late Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon became a criminal in the eyes of the people he was sworn to protect
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The fallout that accompanied the accounting scandals of the early 2000’s had an immediate impact on corporate business and accounting practices which is still being felt today. The collapse of Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ as well as the subsequent collapses of Worldcom and others have left a permanent mark on how corporate businesses and accounting firms are perceived and how they are regulated. It has also altered the experiences of students who are pursuing‚ or are considering
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achievements of: withdrawing the U.S. from Vietnam‚ restored relations with China‚ reasoned the first major arms agreement with the Soviet Union; his lasting legacy that haunts him is that he was the chief perpetrator and chief victim of the Watergate scandal. Also the only President ever to resign in disgrace. By all means he was an intelligent man that received offers from Harvard and Yale‚ however‚ he contained a quality of self-destructiveness that would hurt his reputation and overall strategy
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the broadcast scene for a while and took a job as a press aide to the Nixon administration. She worked at this job until 1974‚ when President Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency after the Watergate Scandal. Even after Diane was accused of being the Deep Throat during the Watergate Scandal‚ she remained close with the former president‚ and went on to help him write his memoirs. She is said to be a big Nixon fan to this day. In 1978‚ Diane jumped back into broadcasting and became a political
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Abstract - The Enron scandal is one of the biggest financial scams ever to take place and its root’s lie in the desire of the senior members of Enron to earn as much for themselves as possible and were assisted in this greatly by the negligence shown by their auditor’s and consultants‚ Arthur Andersen. Most of the debts and tangible assets of Enron were on the balance sheet of partnerships that were run by high-ranking officials within the corporation and these partnerships were recorded as related
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