June 17, 1972 is a date that changed America for years to come. For on that day Richard Nixon signed his death sentence on his presidency. That was the day of the break-in at the watergate hotel, the home of the 1972 democratic national convention headquarters. Watergate prolifically changed the way that we as americans think and how we as americans act through politics. Without Watergate who knows what our current political system would be like? Most think what we currently have is a very corrupt system, but without Watergate and its following regulations the system would most definitely be even more corrupt. It all started with a hotel security guard doing his job. He was making his evening rounds when he noticed something odd. There was
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He might have gotten away with the whole thing if it were not for his own security system that he had installed in the oval office. When he became president he decided to have all of the conversations in the white house secretly taped so that he could listen to them later if he were to ever need it. In reality though his own security system came and bit him in the butt. On those recordings he basically admitted to covering the whole thing. The tapes later became known as the smoking gun recordings. The tapes were a recording between Nixon and H.R Haldeman. In the tapes Nixon admitted to hiring the burglars. Also in the conversation it was said that they were going to have the CIA tell the FBI, who was leading the investigation, that they thought it was a botched foreign government spying system. And to further the investigation would be an endangerment to the security of the United States. That plan did not go well because a prosecutor in the trial knew about the tapes and requested them. Nixon fought ferociously to keep the tapes private claiming that they were confidential and the release of the tapes would be a threat to the United States. The courts would not allow it and he released part of the tapes but not the part where he admitted to the crime. Soon though there was a court order for Nixon to release the missing part of the tapes, where he admitted to being part of the coverup
He might have gotten away with the whole thing if it were not for his own security system that he had installed in the oval office. When he became president he decided to have all of the conversations in the white house secretly taped so that he could listen to them later if he were to ever need it. In reality though his own security system came and bit him in the butt. On those recordings he basically admitted to covering the whole thing. The tapes later became known as the smoking gun recordings. The tapes were a recording between Nixon and H.R Haldeman. In the tapes Nixon admitted to hiring the burglars. Also in the conversation it was said that they were going to have the CIA tell the FBI, who was leading the investigation, that they thought it was a botched foreign government spying system. And to further the investigation would be an endangerment to the security of the United States. That plan did not go well because a prosecutor in the trial knew about the tapes and requested them. Nixon fought ferociously to keep the tapes private claiming that they were confidential and the release of the tapes would be a threat to the United States. The courts would not allow it and he released part of the tapes but not the part where he admitted to the crime. Soon though there was a court order for Nixon to release the missing part of the tapes, where he admitted to being part of the coverup