Then he had a plan to instruct the Central Intelligence Agency to impede the FBI’s investigation of the crime. This was abuse of his presidential power and obstruction of justice. Nixon then resigned when he was certain that he was going to get impeached. Later John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman found guilty of the Watergate coverup for aiding Nixon in 1975 (Watergate Scandal). This Watergate scandal is still relevant to this day, because it shows that even with the separation of power. There is still a possibility that an elected official has the ability to be corrupt. With the example of Nixon, he cheated to get an upper hand in the reelections and then tried to use the CIA to cover it up. If this happened once, it can happen
Then he had a plan to instruct the Central Intelligence Agency to impede the FBI’s investigation of the crime. This was abuse of his presidential power and obstruction of justice. Nixon then resigned when he was certain that he was going to get impeached. Later John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman found guilty of the Watergate coverup for aiding Nixon in 1975 (Watergate Scandal). This Watergate scandal is still relevant to this day, because it shows that even with the separation of power. There is still a possibility that an elected official has the ability to be corrupt. With the example of Nixon, he cheated to get an upper hand in the reelections and then tried to use the CIA to cover it up. If this happened once, it can happen