Essay About Political Scandals And President Ulysses S. Grant

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Watergate Political scandals are not strangers to the United
States. They date back as far as 1830, with the presidential
sex scandal and Thomas Jefferson, and in 1875 with the
Whiskey Ring and President Ulysses S. Grant (Time and
Again 1). Today we have the Iran-Contra affair with Ronald
Reagan and Whitewater with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Even
with these, it can be argued that Watergate could possibly be
the worst scandal in the history of the United States. Richard
Milihous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States,
and the only President to ever resign his office. He was born
the second of five sons, in Yorba Linda, California. His
parents were Francis Anthony and Hannah Milhous Nixon.
His career started in 1945 when he accepted the candidacy
for a seat in the 12th congressional district which he won. He
was elected to United States Congress in 1946, he then
entered into the Senate as the youngest member ever in
1951. Only a short two years later he became the second
youngest vice-president in history at the age of thirty nine. He
served two terms as vice President under President Dwight D.
Eisenhower. In 1969 he won his bid for the
Presidency(Kinsella 3). The Iran-contra affair was more of a
U.S. foreign policy affair. This scandal came about in
November of 1986 when President Ronald Reagan admitted
to the selling of arms to Iran. The overall goal was to improve
relations with Iran, but it soon came to light that it was more of
a trade of arms for hostages deal. Later it was found that
some of the profits from the sale of the arms to Iran went to
the Nicaraguan “contra” rebels. On Dec.24, 1992, President
George Bush pardoned all the people involved with the
scandal and no charges were filed against Ronald Reagan
(Iran-contra 1). The latest of all scandals is the Whitewater
affair. The Whitewater affair is an ongoing investigation into a
bad Arkansas real-estate adventure in the late 1970, and its
connection with the now defunct Arkansas savings and loan
company, and with President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary.
The Whitewater development company started in 1979 and
had the investors Bill Clinton, the Governor of Arkansas, his
wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, a attorney for the Rose law firm,
James B. McDougal the owner of the Madison Guaranty