An Analysis Of Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers

In the summer of 1972, 5 burglars broke into the Watergate hotel where the democratic convention was being held. The burglars were eventually captured and arrested, but one of the burglars implicated then President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, in the planning of the break-in. After weeks of subpoenas from congress, demanding tapes that were used to record the activities in the White House. It was then that Richard Nixon would irrevocably change America’s future by doing something that every president had done before him, he would use executive privilege to block the investigation into the White House’s role into the Watergate break-in. By invoking executive privilege, Richard Nixon proved his guilt and permanently changed how Americans viewed the president’s use of executive privilege.

On August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon was the first, and so far the only president of the United States to resign from office. Out of what looked like to be an inevitable impeachment, Nixon became a part of one of the biggest scandals ever known. President Nixon believed he was taking the necessary measures to reunite a divided country that was undergoing the Vietnam War. About 2 years prior, a group of burglars were arrested at the Watergate complex after breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee. A security guard noticed there was taping over some of the locks of the building and responded by immediately calling the police. The thefts were involved in the reelection campaign for Richard Nixon’s second term by stealing

One of the only presidents in United States history to almost be impeached, is Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon is most famously recognized for his watergate scandal, in which Nixon’s administration was accused of committing acts in secret that are against the American constitution. However, this scandal is not the only thing America’s 37th president has to remember about him. During his short time in the White House, the republican Richard Nixon was able to accomplish many things such as signing one of the first environmental protection bills, introducing the famous War on Drugs, which legacy continues to be practiced in America today, as well as officially ending the Vietnam War.

As president, Nixon's achievements included forging diplomatic ties with China, the first president to do this, and the Soviet Union. He was responsible for withdrawing US troops from an unpopular war in Vietnam. However, Nixon's involvement in Watergate tarnished his legacy and deepened American cynicism about government. Richard Milhous Nixon's born on January 9 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He was the second of five sons of Francis Anthony Nixon (1878-1956). FRANCIS NIXON STURGGLED TO EARN A LIVING RUNNING A GROCERY STORE AND GAS STATion with his wife, Hannah Milhous Nixon (1885-1967). His mother was a Quaker, who had a strong influence on her sons. Richard Nixon's early life as hard. The family experienced tragedy twice early

In 1972, Richard M. Nixon hired five ex-cuban trained agents to break into the Watergate complex to gain information on George McGovern. The scandal started when Nixon hired Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt to re-elect Nixon. Nixon knew he was going to win the Presidential campaign, but he didn’t he wanted to win by a landslide.

Nixon’s presidency—a period wrought with scandal. The most well-known of these, Watergate, a complex web of deceit, has become a political term synonymous with corruption and crime. Afraid of possible defeat in the 1972 election, Nixon and his republican associates sanctioned underhanded, illegal, acts, namely a break-in at the Democratic Party national headquarters at the Watergate complex. The break-in failed and the story was revealed to the public, despite the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up the scandal. As a result of their insistence on covering up the infamous event, the leadership of the United States was sent spiraling into a mess of treachery and dishonesty, threatening both the nation’s stability and future.

Corruption in politics has never been more notably observable by the American people than that of the Watergate Crisis. Though Nixon’s involvement of the actual break-in has never been proven, his cover-up of the event and his misuse of Presidential power were clearly established. Over the course of several years, America would bear witness to scandalous events, the first resignation of a President, conviction and imprisonment of twenty-five officials within the Nixon administration, and undoubtedly the most severe constitutional crisis in recent history.

In this article the debate of whether Richard Nixon should be forgiven was discussed. While Nixon was known to have reorganized the executive branch in a helping sense, his one track mind that extended the Vietnam War and the truth about who he really was through the Haldeman Diaries only goes to show that Nixon's poor leadership should indefinately not be forgiven.

For many to forgive is one of the toughest thing to do, while it comes easy for others; a decision to pardon someone is beneficial whether individual or to a country as we see in President Gerald Ford decision to pardon Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal. President Nixon the only United States President to ever resign as a consequence of the Watergate scandal. (Whitehouse.gov) One has to understand that forgiveness is the beginning of a healing process and at the time the United States of America as a nation need to heal as the country recovery from the ordeal of the Vietnam War. In my opinion, President Nixon only logical choice was to resign because he would almost definitely would be charged with criminal charges and would have been impeached. On the other hand I believe that President Ford humbly put himself aside and put his country interest first, in life not many are willing to do that.

The late 1960s to the mid-1970s was characterized by political controversy and instability. The Watergate crisis is the most infamous scandal that occurred within those years, and arguably, in American political history. The event occurred in 1972 and it redefined American political culture. Nixon’s involvement in the incident (and other controversies leading up to Watergate) led to a loss of faith in government and a transition to the public’s reliance on the media. However, Watergate's long term positive effects negate its obviously negative reputation. The scandal transformed the ethical environment of politics by yielding a series of progressive changes to government administration. These alterations include the Freedom of Information

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On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon, addressed the United States of America and its congress, detailing his plans to stem drug abuse in the United State. He declared it “America’s public enemy number one”, saying that “In New York City more people between the ages of 15 and 35 years of age die as a result of narcotics than from any other single cause”. Less than a year prior to his speech, congress had passed into legislation a bill that called for a comprehensive reform of the country’s current drug laws. Still, Nixon felt that the nation needed more as the current drug policies were not enough to eliminate drug abuse. He went on to propose many ideas for what he called “a full-scale attack on the problem of drug abuse in

Since the beginning of time, humans have searched for truth. Reality. Verity. Truth about why we do the things we do, how the Earth came to be what it is, how we have evolved, and where we started so long ago. It’s only when we find our truth, we want more, and we’re thirsty for more. We search for alternate certainties, different perspectives. Quickly we come to conclusions, which turn to rumours, theories… Ideas have been built up, until they are towering conspiracies, quickly turning to turmoil under the media’s sharp wit. I have been absorbed in theories on the deepest oceans, deaths, murders, untold truths that have been hidden away deep down.

In an address to the nation, Nixon swore that he wasn't involved in the burglary of the DNC"s offices, and America believed in him enough to reward him with a reelection by a sweeping majority. Nixon was later found to be corrupt when it was discovered that he paid thousands of dollars in "hush funds" to the burglars to keep them from connecting the case to him. Nixon and his aides were also guilty of arranging the CIA impede the FBI"s investigation. The crimes Nixon committed were considered an "abuse of presidential power", which many believed to be more serious than the break-in itself. Eventually, Nixon and his aides convinced five accomplices to plead guilty to their involvement in the scheme, and two that did not, were ultimately convicted

Perhaps the most shocking of which were the illegal activities included in the Watergate scandal. Nixon had a hand in not only selling ambassadorships; but also harassing the Democratic National Committee chairman Lawrence O’Brien, stealing files to blackmail retired presidents, and even putting spies in political groups he deemed radical. What would ultimately prove his downfall, however, would be the failed break-in attempt at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex. While Nixon may not have been aware of the specifics involved in the burglary plans, he had approved the Gemstone Plan under which the burglary was put into effect. The burglars were hired to break into the Committee’s headquarters and bug the telephones so that Nixon would be able to determine who was contributing to the Democratic campaign and punish them as he saw fit. Unfortunately for Nixon, however, a security guard noticed tape covering the locks of several of the doors within the complex and called the