Watergate is one of the most disgraceful political scandals in American history. It has a long-term influence on American history and the whole international press. After Watergate, whenever a country encounters a ruling crisis or a ruling scandal, it is usually labeled as "door" by the international press, such as "Iran door", "zipper door" and "prison abuse door". 1972 in the presidential election, in order to obtain information about the internal campaign strategy of the Democratic Party, in June 1972, James W. McChord, the chief security adviser of the Nixon campaign team of the Republican Party of the United States, led five people to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Building in Washington, D.C., and was caught red-handed while installing a bug and shooting relevant documents. After the incident, Nixon once tried to cover up his excuses, but in the subsequent investigation of the case, many people in the Nixon administration were exposed one after another, directly involving Nixon himself, which triggered a serious constitutional crisis. 1973 10.20 Nixon forced the attorney general who refused to dismiss the special prosecutor. After the second Minister of Justice succeeded the Attorney General, he resigned because he refused to dismiss the special prosecutor. Finally, the Third Attorney General agreed to dismiss the special prosecutor. Nixon even mobilized the FBI to block the offices of the special prosecutor, the chief justice and the second minister, and announced the cancellation of the federal special prosecutor's office and the investigation power of the case. In the face of Nixon's abuse of administrative power to defend himself, it attracted serious accusations from the public. Nixon, who was re-elected for his meritorious service in ending the Vietnam War, collapsed on June 5438+1October 3 1, and the US House of Representatives decided that the Judicial Committee of the Institute should be responsible for investigating and collecting Nixon's criminal evidence to prepare for the impeachment of Nixon. 1On June 25th, 974, the judicial committee decided to release all the evidence related to the impeachment of Nixon. At the end of July, the Judicial Committee passed three articles to impeach Nixon. Nixon announced on August 8 that he would resign the next day, thus becoming the first president in American history to resign. From June 1972 to June 17, James McChord and other five people broke into the national headquarters of the Democratic Party in Watergate Building until President Nixon resigned on August 9 1974. bob woodward and carl berstein, two journalists from Washington post, made a series of follow-up reports on the whole incident. It was the inside information they reported that exposed the connection between the White House and Watergate. After most Watergate cases were exposed, bob woodward and Karl Burstein published "All the Presidents" (also translated as "The Grand Conspiracy") and "The Last Days" (/font) in 1974 and 1976 respectively, and the two journalists recorded the inside story of Watergate in detail. Film and television work 1977, the film of the same name adapted from the book "The President's Team" won four awards at the 49th Academy Awards ceremony, including the best adapted screenplay award and the best artistic direction. The informant's code name is Deep Throat, published on May 3, 20051. W mark felt, former deputy director of the FBI. The movie Forrest Gump also alludes to Watergate.