Watergate in Two Minutes

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Thank you!!! Every time I try to wrap my head around what watergate was I always end up more confused but this video helped me a lot!

lauralynnguccichairisuglym

Forest Gump called the police on the bugler's

IRUNNNEWYRK

This video was posted over a year ago but so relevant now. Thanks for simplifying it for this Gen Xer who didn't pay attention in history class.

reginafallangie

For me, as a non-American, this video told me everything I wanted to know, thanks, 2 minutes is more than enough. I came here from a 7 minute video that told me absolutely nothing.

depppplus

Short and easily understood. Thank you!

kimrafaeltubio

Best brief video on watergate I didn’t understand Jack before this

billnye

I never would of imagined Leonard Hofstadter knew so much about politics and American history.

Mynameisjami

O my gosh! Thank you for helping me understand this without reading a novel!

xquizitebeats

You should have included that the Watergate scandal was the reason that the MK Ultra project was discovered and made public.

soc_psyc

omg for a second I thought you were Tom Arnold! You even sort of speak like him....can't explain it...i just see so much of him in you.

ellierome

Crazy how I’ve heard about watergate before but really never knew the story. I feel like they hide it well, I was never taught about it in school (25 years old)

PincheBeto_Bass

I thought he went to a theatre to watch a porn film called "deep throat" lol now that would've been quite a scandal

VLKNIGHT

Finally I understand it!

Also I hate it when people add the suffix Gate onto more modern scandals

TheMightyKinkle

I was in high school and remember this quite well, maybe not all the details but the reaction we had at school. Nixon resigns.

vincent

The 1968 presidential election was NOT a squeaker! Nixon/Agnew won with 301 electoral votes, Humphrey/Muskie got 190 electoral votes, and Wallace/LeMay got 46 votes. The third party -- Alabama governor George Wallace and retired USAF SAC general Curtis LeMay of the American Independent Party arguably had an effect on the election. Per Wikipedia:

Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, to mount a third-party challenge against his own party to defend racial segregation on the basis of "state's rights". Wallace led a far-right American Independent Party attracting socially conservative voters throughout the South, and encroaching further support from white working-class voters in the Industrial North and Midwest who were attracted to Wallace's economic populism and anti-establishment rhetoric. In doing so, Wallace split the New Deal Coalition, winning over Southern Democrats, as well as former Goldwater supporters who preferred Wallace to Nixon. Nixon chose to take advantage of Democratic infighting by running a more centrist platform aimed at attracting moderate voters as part of his "silent majority" who were alienated by both the liberal agenda that was advocated by Hubert Humphrey, and by the ultra-conservative viewpoints shared by George Wallace on race and civil rights, yet used coded language to combat Wallace in the Upper South, where these states were less extreme on the segregation issue. Nixon sought to restore law and order to the nation's cities and provide new leadership in the Vietnam War.

During most of the campaign, Humphrey trailed Nixon significantly in polls taken from late August to early October. In the final month of the campaign, Humphrey narrowed Nixon's lead after Wallace's candidacy collapsed and Johnson suspended bombing in the Vietnam War to appease the anti-war movement. In the end, Humphrey was unable to surpass Nixon on election day, losing the Electoral College by 110 votes (not counting faithless electors), as well as the popular vote by a narrow margin.

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