No, he was caught during his term, but his scheduled trials would be after he had resigned which never happened because of a presidential pardon Nixon received from Gerald Ford.
Resign from office.
The Watergate scandal began on 17 June 1972, with a burglarly at the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington, DC.
Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon sent the country rolling with the Watergate Scandal. The country was still trying to recover from Vietnam War when this scandal came to the surface. The Watergate scandal was Richard Nixon trying to cheat the country into reelecting him into office.
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Because of his watergate scandal
No, he resigned from office in 1974 amidst the Watergate scandal.
Watergate
The watergate tapes are the series of tapes that was used as the main evidence to impeach Nixon. The tapes were recordings of every conversation Nixon had in his office about the Watergate scandal, they contained evidence that Nixon was trying to cover up his involvement in the scandal.
Richard Nixon.
Nixon resigned because of the watergate scandal.
The scandal began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. They were caught and arrested while they were in the building, so the issue was out the same day. However, the enire scandal regarding wiretapping and misappropriated funds came to light slowly and in pieces thru investigation.