Watergate Incident
The Watergate Incident was one of the utmost controversial events that has ever occurred in American history. The Democratic National Committee headquarters
at the Watergate office in Washington D.C., had been broken into on June 17, 1972.
The Nixon administration attempted to cover up its tracks but failed. Illegal
activities were undertaken by members of Nixon’s administration. Those activities
were tricks such as bothering political offices of political opponents as well
as people Nixon was suspicious of. He ordered the FBI and the CIA to harass activist
group or political figures. This all began when five men were arrest by
breaking into the Democratic National Committee. The FBI found that the
burglars had cash connected to the Committee for the Re-Election of the
President. In July of 1973, there was a plethora of
evidence against the president and his administration. It had been revealed
that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his office that recorded
conversations. The U.S supreme Court ruled that the president must hand over
those tapes. The tapes revealed that the president had attempted to cover up
what had happened after the break-in. Instead
of facing impeachment and more humiliation, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974,
the very first president to do so. Gerald Ford then became the successor.
Dialogue that had occurred: "When trying to cover up, the FBI discovered the name of E. Howard Hunt in the address books of Barker and Martínez. Nixon administration officials were concerned because Hunt and Liddy were also involved in another secret activity, known as the White House Plumbers, which was set up to stop security "leaks" and to investigate other sensitive security matters. Dean would later testify he was ordered by top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman to "deep six" the contents of Howard Hunt's White House safe. Ehrlichman subsequently denied that and, in the end, the evidence from Hunt's safe was destroyed (in separate operations) by Dean and the FBI's Acting Director, L. Patrick Gray." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal)As evidence, he cited a June 23 taped conversation between the President and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, in which Nixon asked, "Who was the asshole who ordered it?" Nonetheless, Nixon subsequently ordered Haldeman to have the CIA block the FBI's investigation into the source of the funding for the burglary." ("A few days later, Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, described the event as "a third rate burglary attempt". On August 29, at a news conference, President Nixon stated Dean had conducted a thorough investigation of the matter, when in fact Dean had not conducted any investigation at all. Nixon also said, "I can say categorically that... no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." On September 15, Nixon congratulated Dean, saying, "The way you've handled it, it seems to me, has been very skillful, because you—putting your fingers in the dikes every time that leaks have sprung here and sprung there." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal)
Dialogue that had occurred: "When trying to cover up, the FBI discovered the name of E. Howard Hunt in the address books of Barker and Martínez. Nixon administration officials were concerned because Hunt and Liddy were also involved in another secret activity, known as the White House Plumbers, which was set up to stop security "leaks" and to investigate other sensitive security matters. Dean would later testify he was ordered by top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman to "deep six" the contents of Howard Hunt's White House safe. Ehrlichman subsequently denied that and, in the end, the evidence from Hunt's safe was destroyed (in separate operations) by Dean and the FBI's Acting Director, L. Patrick Gray." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal)As evidence, he cited a June 23 taped conversation between the President and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, in which Nixon asked, "Who was the asshole who ordered it?" Nonetheless, Nixon subsequently ordered Haldeman to have the CIA block the FBI's investigation into the source of the funding for the burglary." ("A few days later, Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, described the event as "a third rate burglary attempt". On August 29, at a news conference, President Nixon stated Dean had conducted a thorough investigation of the matter, when in fact Dean had not conducted any investigation at all. Nixon also said, "I can say categorically that... no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident." On September 15, Nixon congratulated Dean, saying, "The way you've handled it, it seems to me, has been very skillful, because you—putting your fingers in the dikes every time that leaks have sprung here and sprung there." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal)