United States Vs. Nixon President Richard M. Nixon was born in California in 1913. He had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law. During World War II, he served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. He was elected to Congress by his California district. Two years later he became Vice President. Later, he was nominated for President, but lost to John F. Kennedy. He finally went on and won an election to become president. Nixon committed a crime called the Watergate Scandal. This case went to the Supreme Court. In 1972, Nixon was running for reelection. Nixon wanted to make his campaign better, so he got his advisors to break into the Watergate to steal top-secret …show more content…
Nixon prevented the FBI’s investigation of the crime and abused presidential power. Five out of the seven advisors pleaded guilty of the crime they had committed. Some of the advisors testified that Nixon had taped every single conversation in the Oval Office. Prosecutors needed the tapes to prove him guilty. Nixon struggled to protect the tapes in the summer and fall of 1973. The Senate committee and Archibald Cox were determined to get the tapes. When Cox would not stop demanding for the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired. The Justice Department officials resigned in protest, which took place on October 20, 1973. This was called the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon finally gave up some of the tapes, but not all of them. In July, the Supreme Court ordered him to turn over all of the tapes. Nixon was dragging his feet and not turning them in. Because of this the House of Representatives voted to impeach him. Nixon finally released the tapes on August 5. Nixon resigned on August 8 because of facing impeachment. He left the office the following day. Vice President Gerald Ford became president. Six weeks later, he pardoned Nixon from any crimes he had committed in office. However, Nixon’s aides were not as lucky as him. They were sometimes sent to federal …show more content…
He should not have gone out of his way to make his advisors steal with the risk of getting caught. If he was that desperate for a better campaign, then he probably would not have won in the first place without breaking in. I do agree with the advisors or aides getting punished for their actions. I do not however, agree with Nixon getting pardoned from the punishments. Gerald Ford shouldn’t of let him get away with it. Nixon committed a huge crime and should have to suffer the consequences. Another thing I do not understand is how he did not get punished or was not forced to give away the tapes. Nixon’s abuse of presidential power had a long-lasting effect on American political life. This created an atmosphere of cynicism and distrust. Many americans had been deeply dismayed by the Vietnam War. However, Watergate added further disappointment to national climate already soured by the the difficulties and losses of the previous decade. After the Watergate Scandal there were many ways life changed. Some things that changed were: the Supreme Court remained supreme, the church committee, an era of legal reform, the era of celebrity journalists, and a legacy of
He believed that it would prepare the South Vietnamese to act in their own defense against a North Vietnamese takeover and allow the US troops to leave Vietnam with its honor intact. Nixon visiting china was a way for Nixon to normalize relations with the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. Due to the Watergate Scandal, on August 9, 1974, he resigned before almost being impeached out of office. After his resignation, Gerald Ford came in the picture. Detente was a French word that meant a release from tension.
Nixon was zealously trying to get reelected. A team was dispatched to the DNC HQ to wiretap phones and steal documents. Trump’s ‘smoking gun’ is a memo in which President Trump instructed the FBI director to “let this go”, referring to the FBI’s investigation of Trump and his associates, and whether they colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The memo is documented evidence that Trump is possibly guilty of the very same crime as Nixon - obstruction of justice and abuse of power. Both men are accused of seeking to block FBI investigations that were getting too close to home.
This was very illegal because he did not inform anyone else that he was recording conversations in there. His prosecutor demanded of the tapes for proof and he refused to turn over any of them, knowing that the tapes would expose him for being involved in all of the crimes committed. Also Nixon fired any uncooperative staff members going against him. One of them being Archibald Cox who was on the senate committee and an independent special prosecutor. Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes and President Nixon ordered that he be fired.
President Gerald Ford was the new president who gave a pardon that liberated President Nixon from the Watergate, Nixon Scandal. Because of the pardon, Nixon would not have to go to court, and his previous actions would not result in a direct penalty. Americans sought this as an unfair negotiation between Gerald Ford and Nixon. They considered this as an unjust action, for others included in the Watergate, Nixon Scandal were prosecuted and sent to jail (Appleby et al. [Page 907]).
On June 17, 1972, Democratic Party’s National Committee offices were broken into by Watergate burglars, assumed former President Richard Nixon. The coverup of the scandal made by Nixon resulted to further investigations and assumptions that led to the impeachment of Nixon. Amid to the scandal, Nixon resigned for “the interest of the Nation must always come before any personal considerations “ (PBS). As President, it is their duty and responsibility to make decisions for their citizens and country, those in which are hard to conclude. Although Nixon should be equally treated like any other citizen accused of violating the law, President Ford entirely justified in pardoning Nixon.
So the early morning of June, 1972 Nixon ordered his plumbers to break and bug/wiretap the Democratic National Committee Headquarters located in Watergate apartments(The scandal’s name was named after the location of where the crime occurred). Unfortunately for the president, the mission was a failure and the plumbers were arrested. The White House administration were quick to deny any wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, stating “no one in the White House staff, no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this bizarre incident... ”(The
Although it is debateable whether or not Nixon knew of the break-ins, he did behave very suspiciously. He became very secretive, resentful, and defensive towards his critics, even going so far as to make
1. The Watergate Scandal in 1972 revealed many ethical dilemmas in President Richard Nixon and his administration. President Nixon proves to be a teleological egoist as he determines what is right is what will benefit himself the most. Additionally, he has a subjective theory of the good because what is good is determined by how he feels about it. When deciding to break in to the Democratic National Headquarters, both Nixon and the five agents of the Committee to Reelect the President lacked prudence because they did not act wisely.
Question 7 (for 10 points): After Nixon was connected to the break-in of the offices of the DNC at the Watergate business complex, in part due to the affiliation of his connection to one of the burglars, who was an employee of Nixon’s Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP), it gradually became apparent that the Watergate break in was largely a result of Nixon’s beliefs concerning the degree of latitude his office afforded him with regards to transgression of federal law. As the result of an investigation by a senate committee prompted by the Watergate scandal, it was discovered that during his presidency Nixon had committed a number of crimes, which included “extending political favors to powerful business groups in exchange
When a president is put on trial for anything, it will be seen by the Senate and no lower court. The senate demands tape recordings for evidence and with Nixon's stubbornness and longing procrastination the senate must resort to a subpoena. Nixon in retaliation then
Instead of going along with the Watergate Scandal Richard Nixon could have stepped up like a good president and stop the situation. Also, instead of giving them hush money, he could have made them tell the police or he could have went to the police himself and told them what was happening. There are so many solution that Richard Nixon could have done and he wouldn’t have been impeached ,but it happened and now he can’t take it back. Nixon can’t even redo his wrong and neither can the
In 1974 the house judiciary committee recommended Articles of impeachment of President Nixon during the water gates scandal. The water gates scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break in at the DNC headquarters at water gate office in Washington D.C. and President Nixon’s administration tried to cover it up. On July 25, 1974 Barbara Jordan gave a speech on the impeachment of President Nixon during the impeachment hearing. She gave a strong passionate and well-rounded speech.
All of this deceit only made Nixon viewed as dishonest and shady to the American people, making his impeachment seem almost predictable. But something that was not predicted was Richard Nixon’s
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States; he resigned as president after his involvement in the Watergate Scandal. People broke into the Watergate building to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. Nixon knew about the break in before hand and tried to cover it up. When people found out about him trying to cover it up, he decided to resign as president. He gave his speech on August 8th 1974 and resigned on the 9th.
He had amassed a collection of government fills, tape records, and intelligence on the common people in the Watergate building. After it was broken into, files were stolen and released to the public. It was the first real time that the general public learned just how paranoid Nixon was, but also how much he wanted to keep the power he already had. As these precious documents surfaced, one could see in full light that Nixon exhibited all the symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder. He was always distrustful of people, he recorded every encounter he had, so that one could twist his words against him.