Whatever the original scandals were, whatever Nixon may have had to do with the break-in at Watergate, or Secretary Clinton may have said that was embarrassing in an email or two, the cover-ups afterwards only made things worse for both of them, and for Hillary, the story goes on. On June 17 th , 1972, there was a break in done by five men at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters that was stationed in the Watergate hotel. While there, as they attempted to steal campaign documents and plant bugging devices so members of the Republican “Committee for the Reelection of the President” could gather information on their “enemies,” they were caught and arrested. The Watergate Scandal was born. In the months and years that followed, a chain of lies, deceptions, purposeful confusion, or obfuscation , was forged, until those very chains strangled and killed the presidency of our 37 th president, Richard Millhouse Nixon, making him the only President of the United States of America in ...