Watergate

**WATERGATE**
[|Watergate Wikipedia] [|President Nixon 'I Am Not a Crook' audio] [|Nixon Resigns (11 seconds)]
 * [|List of scandals with '-gate' as a suffix]**
 * **Vocabulary**
 * Whistleblower
 * 4th Estate
 * **Important Questions from Watergate**
 * 1st Amendment Issues:
 * Should journalists be allowed to publish stories from unnamed sources? Should those sources be forced to testify in a slander trial?
 * Should the president have received a pardon? Why or why not?
 * Should presidents have "executive privilege?"
 * **Important Legacies from Watergate**
 * Disillusionment about politicians
 * Role of the press
 * [|History of Journalism in America]
 * ***ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TODAY B/C OF THE "DEATH OF THE NEWSPAPER"
 * [|'Death of Newspapers'] -- Why are newspapers dying? What could this mean for society? What can be done to prevent it?
 * [|Stephen Colbert Interviews Newspaper Lobbyist on "Death of the Newspapers"]
 * Ability of U.S. government to bounce back