Watergate scandal

Watergate Scandal

   In 1972, President Richard Nixon was running for reelection and the country was divided and involved in the Vietnam War. According to history.com, during the May of 1972, "members of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (known derisively as CREEP), broke into the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office’s phones." It was later discovered that these microphones hadn't been set up correctly and didn't work, so on June 17, 1972, these men went back into the building to put together the new microphone. While doing this a guard had noticed the locks on the doors had been taped over, called the police, and caught them. Once all this happened the question was raised of are these men working with Nixon on his campaign because, "detectives found copies of the reelection committee’s White House phone number among the burglars’ belongings."(history.com). Even though this raised a few questions, Nixon was still reelected in August of that year. A prosecutor in this case was Archibald Cox and his main focus was getting the tapes that Nixon had recorded in the Oval Office as evidence. "When Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired, leading several Justice Department officials to resign in protest. (These events, which took place on October 20, 1973, are known as the Saturday Night Massacre.) Eventually, Nixon agreed to surrender some—but not all—of the tapes."(history.com). In August 1974, once his part in the scheme was revealed, Nixon resigned. 

  

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