Richard Nixon was not put on trial. He resigned in August of 1974 to avoid impeachment, which is the rough equivalent of indictment.
Richard Nixon was not put on trial. He resigned in August of 1974 to avoid impeachment, and his successor granted him a full pardon.
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Richard Nixon became very ill during the time of the trial. So, the judge rendered a decision to not go further with the trial.
One of the main reasons Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon was because he did not believe that Nixon could receive a fair jury trial in the United States. He also through Nixon has suffered enough while in office.
Had President Nixon been impeached, the trial would have been held in the Senate where he would have been either convicted or acquitted.
to reduce the flow of communist supplies
The special prosecutor during the Watergate trial asked President Nixon to release secret audiotapes. Shortly thereafter, the president had the prosecutor fired.
Ford was a relief after the mess with Nixon and then he pardoned Nixon for Watergate. That made some people angry, but in retrospect he did the right thing. If Nixon had gone to trial for his crimes it would have been worse on the nation.
The sentencing of the Watergate burglars led to Gerald Ford's pardon of President Nixon.
Only the House can impeach. An impeachment leads to a trial by the Senate. Nixon was likely to be impeached when he resigned. He knew the impeachment and the ensuing trial would make it impossible for him to govern while it lasted, and he might have been found guilty and lose his office anyway, so he resigned.
Richard M. Nixon was never impeached. After being assured he would be found guilty in a US Senate impeachment trial, he resigned before that happened on 9August 1974.