Nixon was in the midsts of running for reelection when five men had been caught arrested breaking in the Democratic party's offices at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men were found with thousands of dollars in cash and a notebook with a White House phone number in it that led back to Nixon. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein later claimed that Nixon's re-election campaign were the ones who paid one of the men caught $25,000 to expose a Republican campaign of being corrupt and give him a lead in the election but it had yet to be proven so despite this incident Nixon was still reelected and the accusations made against him were attempted to be covered up. But even being so the scandal didn’t go away or get easier for Nixon and his presidency just went downhill from there. At a hearing held by the Senate's special Watergate Committee, a presidential assistant admitted that everything was taped at the Oval Office and the phone calls between the men had been recorded, but Nixon denied this and refused to hand over the tapes. Furious and outraged Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. The tapes were finally released In response to a Supreme Court order , and on one of the tapes the president appears to have agreed to a cover-up just six days after the break-in. The House of Representatives began formal moves to impeach
Nixon was in the midsts of running for reelection when five men had been caught arrested breaking in the Democratic party's offices at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men were found with thousands of dollars in cash and a notebook with a White House phone number in it that led back to Nixon. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein later claimed that Nixon's re-election campaign were the ones who paid one of the men caught $25,000 to expose a Republican campaign of being corrupt and give him a lead in the election but it had yet to be proven so despite this incident Nixon was still reelected and the accusations made against him were attempted to be covered up. But even being so the scandal didn’t go away or get easier for Nixon and his presidency just went downhill from there. At a hearing held by the Senate's special Watergate Committee, a presidential assistant admitted that everything was taped at the Oval Office and the phone calls between the men had been recorded, but Nixon denied this and refused to hand over the tapes. Furious and outraged Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. The tapes were finally released In response to a Supreme Court order , and on one of the tapes the president appears to have agreed to a cover-up just six days after the break-in. The House of Representatives began formal moves to impeach