Update to #2

I learned from my own historical research that the movie leaves out an explanation of the entire Watergate scandal, instead, focusing mainly on the interview time period itself. One could not learn what exactly the scandal was fully about, why Nixon chose to resign and wasn't impeached or convicted, and how the interview concluded. The watergate scandal was a general label slapped onto all the dishonest and illegal things Nixon's reelection campaign administration chose to do in order to get Nixon reelected. The watergate scandal came to a head when a group of burglars Nixon hired were sent to the Democrat Watergate Headquarters to wire tap it in order to get more information about the democrats strategy and have a level over them in the campaign. The burglars were caught wiretapping and were linked back to Nixon because one of the burglar's address book contained a phone number connected to Nixon's reelection campaign team. This was ousted to the public by Washington Post reporters which started the deep dive into all of Nixon's dishonesty. These reporters were able to uncover all the things that Nixon illegally did including Nixon's secret oval office tapes of every conversation that happened in the presidential office and how far deep the Watergate lies went. However, even though the whole scandal was unearthed, Nixon was not convicted or impeached. Nixon instead chose to resign because he was scared to be impeached after releasing the tapes, and then Gerald Ford, Nixon's vice-president turned president, chose to pardon Nixon completely, leading to a public outcry. This whole scandal and then the way it was treated after caused the public to stop blindly trusting the government which was so monumental because the public had completely believed the government had their best interest in mind before (textbook). Nixon did not do anything to ease this distrust and instead made it worse by refusing to admit his wrongdoing and apologize to the public for it. He kept insisting that his motives were pure and completely evaded apologizing in the interview. The Watergate scandal was also taking place during the Vietnam War so the public was already upset, and then finding out their president had lied to them and unfairly affected their voting choices was a huge thing (textbook). The movie also does not talk about the actual court case and Nixon's unwillingness to participate in it. The grand jury subpoenad Nixon's tapes and for Nixon to take the stand. However, Nixon refused because he believed he had the presidential authority to keep the tapes secret. Eventually, Nixon finally complied with this demand, but his difficulty in the court case is not talked about in the movie at all. Thus, one could not find out what exactly the Watergate scandal was, how much it affected the public, what all was happening in this time period, or why Nixon chose to resign.

I rewrote this because I unintentionally plagiarized by not citing a source I had used and incorrectly paraphrasing, and I did not answer the question, instead focused on small details of the movie that were different that real life. I learned to be much more careful with differentiating between my own notes and some one else's thoughts and ideas, to pay more attention to the actual prompt, and be much less careless with the importance of giving someone credit for their own work and to be very careful to not get it mixed up with my thoughts. For the future, I plan to make sure I don't rush any research and have the author's ideas clearly outlined as their's, and put my own ideas at the bottom so I don't get them mixed up at all.