The Watergate and Enron Scandals

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This paper compares and contrasts the Watergate and Enron scandals, revealing some significant similarities in terms of their causes and how they were handled, but also a number of major differences. In both scandals, conservatives committed multiple felonies, lied relentlessly in an effort to conceal their crimes, and sought to avoid responsibility by blaming others for the scandal. The major difference between the Watergate and Enron scandals is that Enron is primarily a financial scandal, while Watergate was a political scandal. Another difference between the Enron and Watergate scandals is that Watergate had a much broader and more serious impact on America, for it revealed massive criminal conduct at the highest levels of the government.

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