During Richard Nixon's presidency, there were multiple events that changed politics, the presidency, and the media forever. The Watergate scandal was one of the biggest political events in history. Five men broke into an office building that contained thousands of classified documents containing plans for the Democratic side of the upcoming election. This caused one of the most explosive media explosions in American history and certainly changed investigative journalism and the presidency forever. Nixon is considered one of the worst presidents the United States has ever encountered; however, most of his flaws were hidden and his actions were never questioned until the media investigated him (Feldstein 62). Nixon was associated not only with the Watergate scandal, but most of his shameful actions were exposed after the end of his presidency. The Watergate scandal, however, would prove to be Nixon's undoing: he was the first president to resign from office and the first president to be caught betraying the American people (63). Watergate was an integral part of a larger plot that gathered information from multiple people, and the operation began long before the burglars were caught. After the arrests, Nixon was no longer a suspect until the Federal Bureau of Investigation linked the "hush-money" (money given to keep a criminal silent about a particular action) received from the thieves to his campaign fund (64). Burglars were caught breaking into the Watergate Complex to fix “bugs” they had planted in a previous break-in (Holland 43). Soon after the break-in, Nixon began a cover-up of Watergate and his involvement. He gave a speech stating that he himself, along with his committee, was not involved in the raid (4...... half of the document ......ion of their government and its people. A crusade of investigative journalism and the public fed on it. Nixon was the first president to resign and the last president to blindly abuse his power The United States of America was challenged, torn apart by a conspiracy and reunited, changing for always his people and his presidency cite Holland, Max. "Watergate Reconsidered." Literary Reference Center Web. 8 January 2014. "Watergate Affair." 2014. McGeary, Johanna, et al. “Inside the Last Chapter of Watergate.” Time 165.24 (2005): 28. History Reference Web. 2014.