The Watergate Scandal :: President Richard Nixon

The Watergate stain had everything. Nixon shamefaced the presidency by lying to the country and abusing his power and his committees were relate in illegal acts and a big cover up, all leading to slight side roads of corruption and lies. Watergate is by far adept of the pip prexyial scandals in the history of the United States. In the story of Watergate, vanadium burglars were pitch breaking into democratic offices at the Watergate complex in majuscule DC. The break-in was passed off as just another burglary, but when the burglars were found to turn in connections with the CIA, questions were starting to be asked. Then when the phone number of Howard extend was found in one of the burglars phone books, it do people think, why would one of the burglars have the phone number of one of the prexys men? When Watergate was uncovered, it revealed that the president was a liar and a cheat. The president lie to our country, lied about his involvement, concealed self incriminati ng evidence, abused his power, and planed to have the CIA stop the FBI investigations. During the times of the unraveling of Watergate, questions were asked about connections with the White House and the president, but when the president was asked about it at a press conference he certified Americans that The White House has no involvement whatever in this limited incident.The lying and cover-ups did not end there, it went on and on for months, and as the scandal kept unraveling, President Nixon and White House, and CREEP officials were deliberately misleading the macrocosm about the significance of the Watergate affair. As Watergate was becoming a front-page article in the newspapers, 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 eighteenth month of President Nixons term. Those tapes would soon prove that the president was deeply involved in the scan dal. The Nixon tapes brought out lots controversy. The tapes alone could prove the president clean-handed or guilty, but whichever one it was, Nixon refused to hand over the tapes. After much struggle Nixon agreed to give a transcript of the tapes. The transcripts brought to light a significant amount of evidence against Nixon. The transcripts revealed payoffs, affiliation with the burglaries and the OKs to the cover-up, but most of the essence(p) the transcripts showed that Nixon had lied repeatedly after he had denied knowing anything about the conspiracy.