Forrest Gump witnessed the American black civil rights movement, went to the front line of Vietnam War, witnessed the Watergate incident and participated in the table tennis competition that opened a new era of Sino-US diplomacy. In popular culture, he was the teacher of Elvis Presley's most famous stage movements, inspired John Lennon's most famous songs, and invented the most famous slogan in the United States in the 1980 s in the long-distance running.

Watergate scandal: Watergate scandal is one of the most disgraceful political scandals in American history, which has had a long-term impact on American domestic history and the whole international press. 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. McCord Jr., the chief security adviser of Nixon Republican campaign team, broke into the office of the Democratic National Committee in Watergate Building, Washington, and were arrested on the spot while installing a bug and filming relevant documents. Because of this, Nixon announced his resignation the next day on August 8 1974, thus becoming the first president in American history to resign.