Was Watergate much worse than all the other presidential scandals?
From Teapot Dome to Iran- Contra to Lewinsky to Obama’s IRS targeting conservative groups, there have been a countless number of Presidential scandals. Yet, the only President to resign due to a scandal was Richard Nixon because of Watergate.
Was Watergate much worse compared to all the other President’s scandals that did not result in impeachment?
Should a break-in to an opponent’s office to wiretap phones override so many major achievements such as a cooling of relations with the Soviet Union and China, creating the EPA, beginning the War on Cancer, landing a human on the Moon, ending the Vietnam War and draft and the 1972 election landslide victory over McGovern?