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Forrest Gump: Why did the president abdicate when he saw several people holding flashlights in the hotel?

Watergate scandal or Watergate scandal.

1972 in the presidential election, in order to obtain information about the internal campaign strategy of the democratic party, on June 1972, five people, led by James W. McChord, the chief security adviser of Nixon campaign team in the United States, broke into the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Building in Washington, D.C. and installed bugs.

Forrest Gump saw several people in the hotel doing it with flashlights.