Watergate

The watergate scandal was one that showed the lying and corrupt behaviors of the Nixon administration.  During Nixon’s presidency, a man got ahold of something called the pentagon papers, which revealed past deception under the Johnson administration.  It had nothing to do with Nixon’s presidency, but he felt that it would be a threat to the democracy, so he decided he needed to get rid of it somehow.  He decided that the best way to make the scandal go away was to make the man that released the papers look unstable.  To do this, he hired a team to break into his psychiatrist's office and steal his files, which would be released.  These men got caught, and Nixon went under some very elaborate schemes to try to hide his deception.  He even hid evidence from the police.  All of this eventually came out, which led to Nixon’s resignation, but it made people more suspicious of their government for the future.