THE WATERGATE SCANDAL by Brooklyn Jessee The year was 1972 when three burglars broke into Democratic offices. The world didn’t know it, but this would kickstart one of the biggest scandals in US history. The story of Richard Nixon’s fall from presidency due to his corrupt ways. This is the story of the Watergate scandal. Sometime in May 1972, members of Nixon’s committee broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee office to bug the building and steal top-secret documents. This went mostly unnoticed, however the bugging devices they used failed to function, and five more burglars were sent in to replace the wiretaps. This too, would have gone unnoticed if not for the valiant work of security guard Frank Wills, who acted on his suspicions and called the police. They arrived in time to catch the robbers and arrest them. While Nixon was not immediately suspected for this scandal, suspicions were raised when one of the burglars had a reelection committee member's phone ...