Many Americans lost faith in their government and became cynical about politics.

Because Nixon hired people to break into the files of top democrats and steal information about what they were doing and planning. He thought that he could usurp the law and do whatever he wanted just because he was the president. Frost/Nixonis actually a very good portrayal of the events.

The administration of Richard Nixon was obsessive to the point of paranoia regarding "leaks" of information the the press & other media. The men given the job of plugging those leaks were given the nickname of "plumbers". (Plumbers are also reputed to 'get rid of the sh*t)

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pat nixon did not know about water gate scandal

John Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1913. He was the Attorney General of the United States from January 20, 1969 to February 15, 1972.

That the President had been part of a cover-up.

Pardoning Richard Nixon

38 members of the Nixon Administration plead guilty to or been indicted for crimes revealed in the Watergate investigation.

Resign from office.

It was a taped conversation between President Nixon and his Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, recorded a few days after the break-in, but by the time it was released Haldeman had been sacked.

In the recording, Haldeman had been suggesting to get the CIA to halt the FBI's investigations into to the break-in of the Watergate Building, and claim it was part of a national security operation. He warned that the FBI were investigating where the money involved in the scheme was coming from. Nixon agreed to the plan.

"Smoking Gun" is frequently used to describe a conclusive piece of evidence. It comes from a scene in a Sherlock Holmes story, in which Holmes and Watson rushed into the room where a murder had been committed, to find a man standing by the body with a smoking pistol.

The tapes were incomplete.

First a security guard at the Watergate hotel found people breaking into the Democratic Headquarters, located at the hotel and he told the police who arrested them for trespassing. Then Washington Post reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, found out, through the help of an FBI agent, that the White House, was involved in many criminal activities. This led to the resignation of President Nixon, who would have been impeached for covering up illegal activities.

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.

Nixon's original chief of staff was H.R. Haldeman. He was dismissed during the Watergate scandal, and replaced by Alexander Haig.

He resigned and most Americans got really mad at Ford when he gave Nixon a presidential pardon, meaning that Nixon didn't have to stand trial for his crimes. Also, before watergate, there was no concept that the president would ever lie to the American people or do anything wrong, and Watergate forever changed that.

1970s. The break-in occurred in 1972; Nixon resigned in 1974.

Unfortunatly not enough. Any one conversant with the KLV Bible could have predicted the likes of it, and there will be more. O! My people those who lead thee cause thee to ERR, and destroy the way of thy paths. [ISAIAH 3:12.] On line KJV http://ebible.org/kjv/kjv.htm The errors of man's leaders; has been damaging to the people; in fact dammaging to the planet itself.

Although various theories and conflicting testimony was given over the years about the motives for the 2 burglaries, no one was ever proved the actual motive. Possibilities: just to eavesdrop on the DNC chair, to obtain financial records, to try to show Cuba was involved with the DNC, to obtain info they had re Libby.

Alkexander Butterfield, a White House staffer, told the Senate Watergate Committee about the existence of the taping system.