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What were the details about how they broke in and how they were arrested?On June 17th 1997 members of the CREEP organization broke into a democratic office in the Watergate building in washington dc. They were arrested after a security guard noticed tape on the door and flashlights in the office window.

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Who decided this court case? What did they decide / order Nixon to do?

Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court.

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What was on the Smoking Gun tape? Why was this so important to Watergate?
The Smoking Gun was one tape from 1972 in which Nixon was recorded telling his advisors where they could get money to keep people quiet and also how they should tell the FBI and CIA not to investigate anything having to do with the break-in. This is the definition of obstruction of justice - trying to stop the legal process from happening. Nixon couldn’t deny he was guilty once this was released.

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What did Nixon do? Why did he do it?

Nixon didn’t like how Cox (the prosecutor) kept hounding him about releasing the tapes, so he pressured the attorney general to fire him. The attorney general didn’t think that was ethical or legal and resigned instead of firing Cox. The assistant attorney general also refused to fire Cox, so Nixon fired him as well. Then, Nixon fired Cox himself. This convinced a lot of people that Nixon thought he was above the law and it was time to start impeachment proceedings.

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When and why did Nixon resign? Who took over?In accordance with his statement of resignation the previous evening, Richard M. Nixon officially ends his term as the 37th president of the United States at noon on August 9, 1974.

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What did Ford do for Nixon? What did it mean for Nixon?After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court case where the dictum stated that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that its acceptance carries a confession of guilt.