The Watergate Scandal :: President Richard Nixon

The Watergate scandal had all(prenominal)thing. Nixon disgraced the pre positioningntial term by fraud to the country and abusing his power and his committees were involved in wrong acts and a big cover up, all leading to little side roads of corruption and lies. Watergate is by far one of the worst presidential scandals in the history of the United States. In the story of Watergate, five burglars were effect breaking into democratic offices at the Watergate complex in Washington DC. The develop was passed off as just another burglary, but when the burglars were prove to take away connections with the CIA, questions were starting to be asked. Then when the phone number of Howard Hunt was found in one of the burglars phone books, it made quite a little think, why would one of the burglars have the phone number of one of the presidents workforce? When Watergate was uncovered, it revealed that the president was a liar and a cheat. The president be to our country, be or so his involvement, concealed self incriminating evidence, abused his power, and planed to have the CIA break dance the FBI investigations. During the times of the unraveling of Watergate, questions were asked active connections with the smock House and the president, but when the president was asked about it at a press conference he assured Americans that The White House has no involvement whatever in this particular incident.The lying and cover-ups did not end there, it went on and on for calendar months, and as the scandal kept unraveling, President Nixon and White House, and CREEP officials were deliberately misleading the public about the significance of the Watergate affair. As Watergate was becoming a front-page article in the saucilyspapers, new evidence was being uncovered. One piece of evidence that changed the peoples ideas of our president was the tapping of every conversation in the oval office since about the 18th month of President Nixons term. Those tapes would soo n prove that the president was deeply involved in the scandal. The Nixon tapes brought out much controversy. The tapes alone could prove the president innocent or guilty, but whichever one it was, Nixon refused to hand over the tapes. After much bark Nixon agreed to give a transcript of the tapes. The transcripts brought to light a evidentiary amount of evidence against Nixon. The transcripts revealed payoffs, affiliation with the burglaries and the OKs to the cover-up, but most important the transcripts showed that Nixon had lied repeatedly after he had denied knowing anything about the conspiracy.