Another historical event involved in "Forrest Gump" is 水门事件.
In the movie, we can see that A-Gump’s table tennis team was invited to the White House. President Nixon arranged them in the Watergate Building. A-Gump couldn’t sleep at night and found that there was a light on the opposite side, so he called the guard. So there was one of the most disgraceful political scandals in American history-the Watergate scandal, which directly led to the resignation of President Nixon.
So what about the real Watergate incident in history?
- Background of the Watergate Incident
The Watergate scandal, also known as the Watergate scandal, was one of the most notorious political scandals in the 1970s. It happened during the 1972 US election. The President of the United States at the time was Nixon, and his rival was Democratic candidate George McGovern.
- The ins and outs of the Watergate Incident
Nixon lacked confidence in whether he could continue to be re-elected. In order to be in a favorable position in the general election, he planned to steal intelligence on the Democratic Party’s internal campaign strategy. So he sent five people headed by his own security adviser James McCord to sneak into the Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Building in Washington, install bugs and secretly photograph related documents.
However, unfortunately, after the staff of the Watergate Building left, they happened to look back at their office and found that there was light shaking inside, so they told me Guards. The guards arrived later and caught the 5 people on the spot. The next day, the "Washington Post" reported the incident on the front page.
It is worth mentioning that when Forrest Gump reported the Watergate incident in the movie, the guard who answered the call was indeed the guard on duty that night, and it was he who discovered the illegal break-in.
At that time, Nixon tried his best to cover up the excuse. Said that he had nothing to do with the matter. Since 3 of the 5 people are Cubans, they took the opportunity to interpret the Watergate incident as an eavesdropping activity carried out by Cubans for their own national interests (the Cuban people said they did not carry this pot).
Later, Nixon defeated the Democratic candidate George McGovern in the presidential election and was re-elected.
But the Watergate incident is not over yet.
In 1973, a special investigation committee was established in the Democratic-dominated Congress to conduct a thorough investigation of the presidential campaign. They first took the White House legal counsel Dean to operate. When Dean learned that he might be sentenced to 40 years in prison, he took the initiative to explain the crime to the prosecutor in order to atone for the crime.
In order to save the situation, Nixon once again shirked responsibility, saying that he did not know about the Watergate incident in advance and defended the wiretapping activities. But later a bigger secret was revealed. It turned out that Nixon also installed an eavesdropping system in the White House office.
In October 1973, Special Prosecutor Cox asked Nixon to surrender evidence related to the Watergate incident. Nixon refused to hand over on the grounds of administrative privileges and ordered his removal from office. The matter was subsequently appealed to the court. Nixon abused his administrative power to defend himself, which drew serious criticism from the people.
Subsequently, the U.S. House of Representatives began collecting evidence against Nixon in preparation for the impeachment of the president.
- Result of the Watergate Incident
At the end of July 1974, the Judicial Committee successively passed three impeachment of Nick.Loose terms. Nixon made a television speech on August 8 announcing his resignation the next day. He is the only president in American history who has been impeached because of a scandal. (Later, Clinton was also impeached because of the scandal, but he did not step down)
The Watergate Incident is rarely shown in "Forrest Gump". If you are interested, please take a look. The 1976 biographical film "All the President&x27;s Men".
