jun 17, 1972 - The beginning of the Watergate scandal - American security guard Frank Wills notices a break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters

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"The discovery of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington shortly after 1am on June 17 1972, set in motion a series of events that would force the first resignation of an American president...Watergate revealed that the Americans placed the rule of law above the wielding of power, however praiseworthy the purposes for which power was being used. Ends did not always justify means. Might did not make right" (Gaddis 2006, p. 157).

"The first point at which the US and the Soviet Union encountered constraints that did not just come from the nuclear stalemate, or from the failure of ideologies…or from challenges mounted by the deceptively weak against the apparently strong. They came as well now from a growing insistence that the rule of law – or at least basic standards of human decency – should govern the actions of states, as well as those of the individuals who resided within them" (Gaddis 2006, p. 158)

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