The Watergate Crisis: A Reference Guide

This reference provides background information about the Watergate crisis and discusses its significance to U.S. politics today.

Relatively insignificant at first glance, the Watergate crisis led to the downfall of a president and emerged as the most important constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Journalists and the media were instrumental in shedding light on Watergate and exposing political corruption at the highest levels of government. Watergate became part of American popular cult...