Watergate

The explanation for Nixon's actions in Watergate will never be fully known, but many historians have made guesses. I believe it can be explained by the personality of Richard Nixon. No matter how much power the President has, it can be resisted. The paranoia Nixon showed in his Presidency , proves that it was not a social or institutional force that made Nixon cover his tracts, it was his own personality.

Vietnam

The United States became involved in the Vietnam war for a wide array of reasons. Many scholars and writers explain the American intervention as the United States trying to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. Others attribute it to "part of a larger effort by the United States after World War II to impose a particular political and economic order in the world." I believe the U.S involvement was due to the Americans trying to stop communism in that crucial part of the world. With China and the Soviet Union funding the communist rebels in Vietnam, the United States had no other options, other than to try to stop them.