{"id":2243,"date":"2021-01-29T06:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2021-01-29T06:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:17:16","slug":"why-so-many-scandals-end-up-with-gate-as-a-suffix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-so-many-scandals-end-up-with-gate-as-a-suffix\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many scandals end up with -gate as a suffix?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. In Washington D.C. in the US, there is a building complex, called the Watergate Complex, which consists of six buildings.<\/li>\n
  2. On 17 June 1972, five men were arrested from the Watergate Hotel (one of the six buildings in the Watergate complex).<\/li>\n
  3. They were believed to have entered to commit a crime, but it was later found that they had come there to fix the listening devices (microphones, etc.) that they had installed a week earlier in the Democratic National Committee\u2019s (DNC) office.<\/li>\n
  4. DNC is the governing body of the Democratic Party, one of the two big political parties in the US, and their office was also in the Watergate complex.<\/li>\n
  5. Upon investigation, these 5 people were traced back to Richard Nixon\u2019s (the then US President) support group.<\/li>\n
  6. They had installed the listening devices to spy on the Democratic Party to benefit in the upcoming (1972) election, which Nixon was contesting for re-election.<\/li>\n
  7. Further investigations revealed that illegal money had been used to fund these secretive operations.<\/li>\n
  8. Before these illegal activities could be linked to Nixon, he was re-elected (November 1972).<\/li>\n
  9. In 1973, Nixon\u2019s role in this scandal came to the surface, and for his attempts to block the FBI investigation, he was impeached<\/a> but before he could be convicted (or acquitted), he resigned.<\/li>\n
  10. Watergate scandal was the biggest scandal in American history, and the media covered it extensively, including the break-in, cover-ups, related kidnapping, etc.<\/li>\n
  11. The tag \u201cWatergate\u201d was first used in August 1972 (before that it was more of the break-in, tapping scandal, etc.).<\/li>\n
  12. Then, within a year, in August 1973, an American magazine American Lampoon<\/i> did a satirical story about a fake Russian scandal and, comparing it with the Watergate scandal, named it \u201cVolgagate<\/i>\u201d.<\/li>\n
  13. This is said to be the first use of \u2018-gate\u2019.<\/li>\n
  14. In September 1974, a New York Times<\/i> columnist, William Safire, detached \u201cgate\u201d from \u201cwater\u201d for the first time and went on (in subsequent years) to coin 20 more \u201cgates”, such as Briefingate, Travelgate, etc.<\/li>\n
  15. Since Safire had once been a speechwriter for Nixon, he was, years later, accused of using \u201cgate\u201d so much to restore Nixon\u2019s reputation by highlighting that scandals (\u201cgates\u201d) were everywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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