ke it was part of his job (Dorman 158). The
             lying did not end there, it went on and on for months, and as the scandal kept
             unraveling, "President Nixon and White House, and creep officials were
             deliberately misleading the public about the significance of the Watergate
             affair" (158). As Watergate was becoming a front-page article in the
             newspapers, new evidence was being uncovered. One piece of evidence that
             changed the peoples ideas of our president was the tapping of every
             conversation in the oval office "since about the 18th month of president
             Nixon's term" (Kutler 368). Those tapes would soon prove that the president
             was deeply involved in the scandal. During the trials, "the Nixon
             administration claimed that the March 21st, 1973 meeting was the first Nixon
             had heard of the cover-ups", but after the tapes were heard it was discovered
             that Nixon was involved from the beginning (Heritage 36). The Nixon tapes
             brought out much controversy. The tapes alone could prove the president
             innocent or guilty, whichever one it was, Nixon refused to hand over the
             tapes. the courts then demanded the tapes, and Nixon still would not give
             After much struggle Nixon agreed to give a transcript of the tapes.
             The transcripts brought to light a significant amount of evidence against
             Nixon. The transcripts revealed payoffs, affiliation with the burglaries, and
             the OK's to the cover-up, But most important "the transcripts showed that
             Nixon had lied repeatedly after he had denied knowing anything about the
             conspiracy" (27). After much struggle, the courts finally got the tapes from
             Nixon, It was Archibald Cox that issued the subpoena for the tapes, and that
             started the bloodbath we now know as the Saturday night massacre. "The
             night of October 20,1973, possibly the most tumultuous in American political
             history, when the special W...