How Did The Watergate Scandal

In 1974, former President Richard Nixon, was sent to court because he had been accused for the cover up the Watergate incident. By the year 1972, Richard Nixon was up for reelection as President. At the time, our country was still greatly affected by the actions and outcome of the Vietnam War. This cause our nation to be angry and deeply divided. Nixon was highly motivated to take aggressive action to ensure his success in becoming President. On June 17, 1972 a group of men from Nixon’s party were arrested because they were caught trespassing into the Democratic National headquarters in the Watergate (a hotel). The names of the men who were caught in the Watergate Scandal were James W. McCord, Virgilio R. Gonzalez, Frank A. Sturgis, and
Immediately after the men were arrested, investigators went right to Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell was questioned to see if he was involved but he denied everything stating that he had no knowledge of the Watergate incident. Later on, after John Mitchell left office, was found guilty for controlling a secret fund that helped pay for spying on the Democratic Party. On January 8, 1973 a trial for the Watergate Scandal began, this is where they confirmed that the men were involved in the break-in a year prior. Upon further investigation, the Supreme Court discovers that the scandal led all the way to the White House. H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman resign from the Watergate and John Dean, the White House counsel gets fired. After discovering how serious this scandal was, Elliot Richardson appoints Archibald Cox as the prosecutor to lead an investigation towards Nixon’s campaign. Now, people are starting to get suspicious about Nixon thinking that he was involved. The investigators and Cox both advise Nixon that he should hand over the tapes but he
Not only did he refuse to and them over, but he continued to deny anything involving the Watergate scandal even after the court had witnessed confess that they have interacted with Nixon on matters involving the Watergate incident. Also, the Supreme Court had power over the President because although the President can exercise executive power, he could not issue executive power in this case because it involved criminal acts on a much higher level. Since this crime involved the President, it went straight ti the Supreme Court which immediately takes away his executive privilege n this case because they judicial branch had the power in order to determine if the actions were constitutional or not. The court is doing the right thing by working towards impeaching Nixon at the time because what he did was wrong. Sneaking into a facility, taking secret files, and wiretapping is a big crime and what makes it worse is that Nixon’s party snuck into the opposing party’s facility. If it were up to me, I would have had Nixon removed from office sooner than the courts did, even though he resigned. Which brings me to another reason on why the courts did the right thing. If he is the first to resign as President, the he clearly was involved and was hiding useful evidence for the investigators. If Nixon was the innocent man he pleaded to be, then he would have had no problem handing over the recordings and then