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Why did Nixon not release the tapes what privilege did he use?
Nixon claimed Executive Privilege in not releasing the tapes.
What are Watergate tapes?
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.
How did the American public react to the release of transcripts of Nixons tapes?
The public was repulsed by Nixon's language in the transcripts.
How did Nixon keep the watergate tapes from getting out?
He avoided it at first by keeping it a secret that he had the tapes in the first place. A man named Alex Butterfield released information that president Nixon had tapes he was keeping secret, which is what made president Nixon have to turn them in.
Nixon tried to avoid turning over the Watergate tapes by claiming that the tapes?
National security
What was Richard Nixon's favorite object?
The Watergate tapes?
What did the tapes reveal about what Nixon knew and when he knew it?
The tapes revealed that Nixon had committed treason by disrupting the peace talks made by south Vietnam in Paris. In order to get him reelected.
What did the tapes reveal about Nixon knew and when he knew it?
The tapes revealed that Nixon had committed treason by disrupting the peace talks made by South Vietnam in Paris. In order to get him reelected.
Nixon's firing of special prosecutor Cox and other officials which aroused angry public demands that he release the Watergate tapes.?
Stonewall Inn
Why did the release of the presidential tapes cause President Nixon to resign?
They caused impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, a virtual certainty in the Democrat-controlled Congress.
What was Nixon's relationship to the Watergate scandal?
Nixon's own tapes showed that he authorized the payment of "hush money" to cover up the break-in at the Watergate Hotel (into Democratic Party Headquarters). The tapes did not provide evidence that Nixon had ordered or approved of the break-in itself.
What was the most incriminating aspect of the white house tapes?
The instructions to G. Gordon Liddy on the break in of the Democratic offices at the Watergate by Nixon.
