WaterGate
President Ricmard M. Nixon is refereed to as one of the most controversial presidents in the history of the United States of America. He is synonymous with this title, because of his involvement in the great "Watergate" scandal.It all started with the election of 1972, Nixon's bid for a second term of presidency. In his attempt at re-election, Nixon took on a different strategy than any other re-election campaign of the past. Instead of using the usual Republican National Committee for re-election, President Nixon divided his campaign into two separate committees. These two committees were named , the Committee for re-election of the president, headed by Attorney General , John Mitchell, and the finance committee to re-elect the president, headed by Secretary of Commerce, Maurice Stans. "Together these committees managed to raise over sixty million dollars for the president' campaign." (Sam J. Ervin, The Whole Truth, pg.36) The work of these two committees enabled Nixon to defeat democrat nominee, George S. McGovern, by a landslide. This decision, by Nixon, would, in the future prove to be the beginning of the end for a good old "Tricky Dick".In his second term, Nixon was known to be positively in
In the wake of all this, Vice President Agnew realized that things were going downhill, and since there was evidence that he had been accepting illegal payments to keep quiet, on October tenth, 1937, he resigned. Also during the investigation, the Senate investigation committee learned of recordings of conversations that Nixon made in his offices in the White House since 1971. "In return, the president released 1,254 pages of edited transcripts of the tapes. Nixon's delaying of the investigation and attempts to hide the identities of the people who ordered the burglary prompted this. The committee voted on three articles of impeachment. Once the tapes were out the scandal really began to unravel. His major accomplishment was ending the military draft in 1973. 140) Nixon said, this told the whole "Watergate Story". In January, 1973, he ended most of the government required limits that had been placed on wage and price increases in 1971, but prices still ballooned. Finally, on August ninth, Nixon resigned as President, avoiding impeachment, and on September eighth, Nixon was pardoned of all crimes. The committee said that this was not good enough. As an excuse, Nixon said the recording system failed on two occasions, and on the other, a conversation was accidentally erased. This began with his refusal to approve of a program, spending billions of dollars on projects created by congress.
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