Watergate Scandal

No one "forced" Nixon to resign. He chose to quit to avoid impeachment on criminal charges and possible incarceration. Given the mood of the country at the time if he had stayed in office there is a strong possibility that he would have been legally removed from office and could have been jailed for his crimes.

Several important members of the Nixon White House Staff (Halderman, Liddy, etc) being sent to prison for their part in the conspiracy and Watergate break-in and the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.

I remember from the History Channel that they had stolen a small amout of money no more than 300 dollars but that was all i remember and they went in that room to set up listening divices so they could listen into the democratic room.

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, both of the Washington Post brpke this story.

Richard M. Nixon was the President implictated in the Watergate Scandal.

On July 27, 1974 the House Judiciary Committee voted 27 to 1 to recommend the first article of impeachment against the president: obstruction of justice. The second article (abuse of power) was passed on July 29th, 1974 and third article (contempt of Congress) on July 30th, 1974. Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency August 9th, 1974

Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C.

The Watergate scandal lead to distrust between the branches of government. Ultimately, it was the cause for the resignation of the president. Credibility of the executive branch was at an all time low. The legislative branch took over control of the country.

The Watergate was a hotel in Washington DC, and also an office building, where the offices of the Democratic Party were located. The Republican party, led by president Richard Nixon, wanted to find out the strategies the Democrats were planning to use in the up-coming elections, and several Republican operatives broke into the Democratic Party's offices to do some spying. This became known as Watergate because of the location where it occurred.

It began with a break-in at the Democrat Party Headquarters located in the Watergate Building complex in Washington, hence the name.

With the discovery of a break-in at the (then) Headquarters of the Democrat National Campaign Committee. The burglars were subsequently arrested inside the Campaign Hq by the Washington DC Police, after which the plot began to unravel. See link below:

There was considerable concern that the democrat party was working closely with the domestic terrorist organization, Weather Underground, aka Weathermen. The break in was to find out how involved they were with them.

The revelation of the White House system for taping conversations uncovered a "smoking gun".

One of the tapes confirmed that the President himself had knowledge of the cover-up and actively worked to keep it hidden.

Nixon's only option, to avoid impeachment, was to resign the Presidency.

Richard M. Nixon, on the verge of impeachment as a result of the Watergate Scandal , became the first US President to resign from office on August 9, 1974. (The Watergate scandal began on June 17, 1972.)

Attorney General Mitchell resigned in disgrace. Nixon replaced Kliendest with Richardson, and the televised Senate Committee hearings led to Nixon's resignation one step ahead of an Impeachment indictment.

* The Washington Post, by far, did the most reporting. It was the Post's two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who did the investigative reporting that brought the matter to light.

The Watergate Scandal was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis resulting in Nixon's resignation. It was within the context of the Vietnam War, where Nixon was attempting to undermine anti-war movements and the whole of the Democratic Party.

Yes. President Nixon was impeached. However, we first must define impeachment. Impeachment is the trial that Nixon went through. He was found guilty (obviously guilty) and was therefore impeached. After he was found guilty there were discussions on whether to "fire" him from his job as president but Nixon quit before anything could happen. He therefore was able to keep the benefits that any former president would have and (sort of but not really) save face.

In the summer of 1974 Richard Nixon faced mounting pressure because of the continuing discoveries of the Watergate scandal. His approval rating reached an all time low of 23%. Finally on August 9th, 1974 Richard Nixon resigned in order to avoid facing impeachment by the Congress.

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So that, if one of his aides turned against him, he could use the tapes against them. He never thought for a moment that his own tapes would be used against him.

A schemer never thinks their own scheme will backfire. They only see the positives from their point of view.

Because they proved he knew about the criminal activity of Watergate and was trying to cover this up and was lying about all this. Apart form being criminal, this is not the sort of behaviour that one expects form the President.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

National security

Some of the President's advisors, all Republicans, were caught spying on the planning meetings of the Democrats in the Watergate Hotel, using a 'bug' and recording device. This practice was considered to be very unethical.