Richard Nixon

did president Nixon want the tapes and documents? According to Gerald R. (History.com) it was made in 2015 no specific date. This subject is mostly about the steps of the Watergate Scandal. There were several burglars invloed. The scandal took place on June 17 1972. In August 1974. During Richard Nixon's reelection campaign they got caught wiretapping the whole thing. Six weeks after Nixon resigned Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president, he pardoned Nixon for any…

The lesser of two evils: that is how Hunter S. Thompson describes Richard Nixon in, “Fear and Loathing in the Bunker”, published in 1974. He argued that voting for Nixon was a better decision than voting for Humphreys. Thompson believed that both Humphrey and Nixon were both equally corrupt. However, he claimed that Humphrey would have been more competent and therefore would have maintained his corrupt presidential office for the full eight year term. Thompson’s claims initially appeared to hold…

Richard Nixon’s paranoia led him to re-install a recording system in the White House after removing the recorder that was already in place. Mistrust led to his downfall as President of the United States. Nixon feared that his people would turn on him during his presidency, so he installed the voice-activated recorder as a means of security for himself. Nixon viewed the tapes as his personal property and never expected anyone else to listen to them unless the tapes would benefit him; his plan…

Guilty or Less Guilty? While some people may not believe that Nixon was involved in the Watergate Scandal, there is substantial proof that he was. The Watergate Scandal is considered to be one of the largest political scandals in history as well as the only one to bring down a presidency. While the news of the scandal shocked the nation, the culprit behind it all did not. "Richard M. Nixon was a secretive man who did not tolerate criticism well, who engaged in numerous acts of duplicity, who…

The essay “Fear and Loathing in the Bunker” mainly focuses on the Authors view on how the election in 1968 affected that time zone. Also, it focuses on Richard Nixon a man who stayed in the white house and became president and is currently the president. The Author, Hunter Thompson; Realized that even before Nixon became president he had the same amount of power on republicans as Charles Manson. Hunter was a very straight forward type of guy and a little feisty. He informs us on his childhood…

of the United States, Richard Nixon, was involved criminally in a case during his presidency. He took many steps to try to cover the crime, steps that were crucial to his presidency, in which he was involved in a “Saturday Night Massacre” and allowed others to take the blame for his actions. Nixon may not have planned the scandal, nor was he even a part of the burglary, but he did many things to make it seem like he had no idea that any of the scandal had occurred. Nixon was eventually caught…

Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech On September 23, 1952 Richard Nixon, a candidate for vice president, gave his famous “Checkers speech” to persuade the American people and potential voters that he was an innocent family man who would never take bribes. The American populace thought he had received over 18,000 dollars worth of bribes, and for him to save his and Eisenhower’s chances of winning the election he gave a speech with an innocent family man appeal that then shifted to an accusatory…

were charged for burglary. Over the course of the scandal, 28 of Nixon's aides and officials were charged with crimes that were connected to the President. President Nixon finally resigned in August of 1974. I was surprised at how long it took Congress to even consider impeaching President Richard Nixon. The Watergate scandal had started in June of 1972, and the House voted to look for possible impeachment evidence in February of 1974. While reading, it was obvious…

isn't as great as it used to be. The war in Vietnam is still going on the spread of communism is threatening as ever and inflation is making prices go up for basically the first time since World War II and America had a pretty good president. Richard Nixon seemed determined to get things done even in the situation he was in. He created a plan for withdrawing troops from Vietnam,…

embargo was that after it happened oil price remained high. Also, environmentalism gained huge attention during the time of the oil embargo. The oil embargo was eventually diminished in March of 1974. 1974 August 9, 1974: Richard Nixon resigns rather than facing impeachment. Nixon was being investigated because of his involvement with the Watergate Scandal. There was talk about his possible impeachment because of the scandal…