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Running against Democrat Hubert Humphrey and Independent George Wallace, Richard Nixon defeated them 301-191-46. Nixon was also very insecure, as he had lost elections in the past. Winning this election drove him power hungry.

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On the top floor of the Watergate hotel in D.C. is the Democratic National Committee's meeting room. This room was broken into by C.R.E.E.P, - The Committee to Re Elect the President - a republican committee to keep Nixon in office. These people broke into the DNC on June 17th, 1972, to get dirt on the Democrats in order to keep Nixon as president.

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After breaking into the DNC meeting room in Watergate, CREEP were wiretapping in order to monitor the phone calls the Democrats were taking. These were being monitored to, again, get insider information on them in order to sabotage the election.

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Nicknamed the plumbers, the purpose of Nixon's secret white house group was to find out who was giving all the classified information about the Watergate scandal out to the public. This group of people were called the plumbers because they were helping fix the president's leaks.

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In order to not have people expose him, Nixon was paying off the Watergate burglars to keep any incriminating evidence confidential. The last thing Nixon wanted was the whole country knowing about all the illegal things he was doing in the DNC to sabotage the next election.

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After all the scandals with the DNC, even though nothing got out yet, Nixon won re-election, the only places not earning his vote being Massachusetts and Washington D.C. All the snooping and criminal activity wasn't even necessary for Nixon to be victorious.

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Released on August 5th, 1974, the tape that showed Nixon to be guilty of obstruction of justice was known as Smoking Gun. This showed Nixon arranging the Watergate break-in and he got forced to release all of the tapes.

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After the Supreme Court made Nixon turn in all of the tapes, including the incriminating Smoking Gun Tape, Nixon decided that he wouldn't have the votes to survive being impeached. He chose to resign his position as president at noon on August 8th, 1974.

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After Nixon's inevitable resignation, vice president Gerald Ford took over. One of the first things that Ford did while he was in office was pardon Nixon for all of the Watergate criminal charges that would come.