John Ford

for the other organization, which was highly illegal. Three trials ensued; after the trial of the burglars James McCord, one of the “plumbers”, stepped forward and offered information on Nixon for a lesser sentence. Later, during the Sirica trial, John Dean, one of Nixon’s advisors, testified under oath against Nixon, as he thought Nixon was setting him. Once Dean and McCord came forward everyone in Nixon’s administration did the same. Nixon asked for a separate investigation, hoping Cox…

He also disagreed with the move by President Ford to pardon those who escaped the drafts during the Vietnam War. Reign publically blamed Ford for the deficits in the budget and called him a poor leader. Reagan criticized politicians and the federal government for being too powerful, too large and also too involved in the society. He did not…

country Richard Nixon, but also a some members of the Republican Administration during the election campaign of 1972. According to the book, America A Narrative History, Vol. 2 (Emory, D. & Brown, G. 2016), “ By the spring of 1972, senior Nixon aide John Ehrlichman was overseeing a secret team of agents who performed various acts of sabotage against Democrats, such as falsely accusing Democratic senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry Jackson of sexual improprieties,…

Nixon released a statement on the 29th of August saying that no one from the White house staff was involved in Watergate. The judge of the case, Judge John J. Sirica, received a letter from McCord that said people in CREEP and the Whitehouse were involved and that perjury had been committed and the defendants were pressured into pleading guilty. The Justice Department instructed Archibald Cox, a Democrat…

of deciding to pardon the former president or not. In President Gerald Ford's mind, he saw the best course of action to take was to pardon Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate Scandal in order to easy tensions about it and put it behind us. "Ford justified this decision by claiming that a long, drawn-out trial would only have further polarized the public."(A&E Television Group) While this seemed like the best course of action to take, it did not sit well with the American people. They saw…

The corruption that grew within the Nixon Administration blinded the Oval Office of its legal and ethical obligations in upholding the Constitution of America. As a result, due to the overwhelming amount of evidence incriminating President Nixon of his involvement in the Watergate burglary, President Richard Nixon was forced, and became the first and only president in the history of the Unites States of America, to resign his post. Even after his decision to resign, President Nixon delayed…

begun to suspect that there was a bigger scheme growing under their noses. Those people included Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, trial judge John J. Sirica and some members of a Senate investigation committee. Meanwhile, a few of the conspirators began to crack under the pressure of the cover-up. John Dean, the White House counsel and a few more of Nixon’s assistants testified before a grand jury about the president’s crimes. They also testified about Nixon secretly…

individuals from the President's organization surrendered. VP Spiro Agnew was likewise compelled to leave for taking rewards. Congress then had Gerald Ford take the place of Spiro Agnew. A select Senate panel, headed by Senator Sam Erving, drove an examination concerning the debasement. Nixon asserted no learning of the illicit exercises, yet John Dean III, a previous White House legal counselor, affirmed about how Nixon attempted to conceal the Watergate Scandal. The lawyer general and…

“True leadership is modeled by those who live by proper application of Godliness and principles found in the Word of God, and being consistent with those principles that they teach” (M.Moore, et. Al, 2003). Readings state that Nixon knew about the Watergate Espionage operation before it happened but he tried to cover it up, raising “hush money” for burglars, and in a persistent effort to stop the FBI from investigating the crime. Was it biblical to pardon him? Was it ethical? “All have…

All through history, people have been overly ambitious in the pursuit of power. However I think that Richard Nixon takes this to a whole new level with his attempts to control the results of the 1972 presidential election, and it eventually led to his downfall both in politics, and the eyes of his fellow Americans. People may say that Watergate wasn’t as it was made out to be, and that the entire thing was overblown, but they are wrong, not only was it as bad as the public originally thought,…