Top political scandals in the U.S.

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Top political scandals in the U.S.

Take a look back at the most infamous political scandals in American history.

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer addresses the media at his office in New York, on March 12, 2008 to announce that he will resign from office after revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring. The resignation will take effect on March 17. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson will then take the office of governor. AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

A demonstration outside the Whitehouse in support of the impeachment of President Nixon (1913 - 1994) following the watergate revelations. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

8th August 1974: American president Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) announces his resignation on national television, following the Watergate scandal. (Photo by Pierre Manevy/Express/Getty Images)

Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA, 19th July, 1969, Frogmen dive into the water as they try to raise the car belonging to Senator Edward Kennedy in which he was seriously injured and his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne was killed, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving te secne of the accident at Chappaquiddick Bridge (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Congressman Wilbur Mills. (Photo by Dick Swanson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) On Oct. 7, 1974, Congressman Wilbur Mills' car was stopped by police in West Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial. Mills was intoxicated and in the back seat of the car with an Argentine stripper named Fanne Foxe. When the police approached, Foxe fled the car. Mills checked into an alcohol treatment center and was reelected to Congress in November 1974. However one month later, Mills was seen drunk onstage with Fanne Foxe. Following the incident, Mills resigned as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and did not seek reelection in 1976.

ORLANDO, FL - DECEMBER 11: Fanne Foxe attends Fanne Foxe Performance on December 11, 1974 at Club Juana in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage) On Oct. 7, 1974, Congressman Wilbur Mills' car was stopped by police in West Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial. Mills was intoxicated and in the back seat of the car with an Argentine stripper named Fanne Foxe. When the police approached, Foxe fled the car. Mills checked into an alcohol treatment center and was reelected to Congress in November 1974. However one month later, Mills was seen drunk onstage with Fanne Foxe. Following the incident, Mills resigned as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and did not seek reelection in 1976.

UNITED STATES - MARCH 16: Former CIA official Valerie Plame Wilson listens to opening statements at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, March 16, 2007 in Washington, D.C. Wilson told the congressional panel she felt like she ``had been hit in the gut'' when her undercover status was publicly revealed in 2003 for ``purely political motives.'' (Photo by Bill Putnam/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, : Lt. Col. Oliver North (L), accompanied by his lawyer Brendan Sullivan, as he testifies before Iran-Contra investigators 14 July 1987, Washington, DC. It was North's sixth day at the witness table. AFP PHOTO/Chris WILKINS (Photo credit should read CHRIS WILKINS/AFP/Getty Images)

Financier Charles Keating being sworn in, before refusal to testify, during House Banking Comm. hearing on failure of his Lincoln Savings & Loan Assoc. (Photo by Terry Ashe//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

American journalist and music critic Nat Hentoff (left) speaks with former US Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (cemter) at the A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention, New York, New York, May 12, 1974. Ellsberg was the source of the leak of the controversial 'Pentagon Papers,' a goverment document about the decision-making process during the Vietnam War. The convention, named after noted media critic A.J. Leibling, was initially created in opposition to the American Newspaper Publishers Association convention. The man in the foreground is unidentified. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 12: ENRON COLLAPSE/KENNETH LAY--Former Enron head Kenneth Lay takes the oath to testify before Senate Commerce. He read a short statement and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly

HOUSTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 26: Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow is led from the Bob Casey U.S. Courthouse after sentencing from his conviction related to the collapse of Enron. September 26, 2006 in Houston, Texas. Fastow testified against his former bosses Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling and received a six-year sentence. (Photo by Dave Einsel/Getty Images)

HOUSTON - OCTOBER 23: Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling talks to the media outside the Bob Casey United States Court House October 23, 2006, in Houston, Texas. Skilling was sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison for his role in deceiving investors about the finanacial condition of his former company, Enron Corp., which ultimately collapsed into bankruptcy in the fall of 2001. The debacle ruined the retirement savings accounts of thousands of former empoyees. Skilling was given home confinement with an ankle bracelet until prison officials order him in. (Photo by Johnny Hanson/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 18: Daily News front page dated Aug. 18, 1998, LIAR, LIAR, After months of denials, Clinton tells nation, grand jury of 'inappropriate' relationship with Monica Lewinsky, (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, : Monica Lewinsky (R) leaves court 20 August after testifying before a grand jury investigating US President Clinton. Lewinsky testified for the second time in the wake of President Clinton's 17 August testimony to the same grand jury. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO/Luke FRAZZA (Photo credit should read LUKE FRAZZA/AFP/Getty Images)

President Clinton makes a short statement regarding the Senate acquitting him of impeachment charges in the Rose Garden at the White House February 12, 1999. Clinton said he was ''''profoundly sorry'''' about the Monica Lewinsky scandal and also appealed for a ``time of reconciliation and renewal for America'''' now that the long ordeal is over. (Photo by Mike Holmes)

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 16: U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) announces his resignation June 16, 2011 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The resignation comes ten days after the congressman admitted to sending lewd photos of himself on Twitter to multiple women. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer addresses the media at his office in New York, on March 12, 2008 to announce that he will resign from office after revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring. The resignation will take effect on March 17. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson will then take the office of governor. AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

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