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In 1968 Richard Nixon ran against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace beating both of them and becoming president.

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The crp was an organization formed during the election of 1972 trying to get Nixon reelected. They are widely claimed to be the organizers for the watergate break in.

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on june 17th 1972 members of the C.R.E.E.P organization broke into the watergate complex to enter a democratic office to steal documents. The intruders were caught after leaving tape on the doorway and carelessly using flashlights catching the attention of a night guard.

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while the intruders were in the watergate office they put wire taps on the phones alongside stealing documents the taps were removed when they were caught.

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nixon started paying off the press to stop covering the watergate break in and other "leaks" of information.

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Nixon had a tape system installed that recorded all of the conversations he had other than the anti semitic remarks he made he talked about watergate and covering it up in a tape known as "the smoking gun."

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John Dean was a whitehouse lawyer who tried to speak out about the coverup of watergate in the attempt he was fired, later he went to court and demanded nixon gave the tapes which he did not.

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Woodward and Bernstein were a duo of journalists who reported on the watergate scandal. their reporting led to the investigation and resignation of Nixon.

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Political cartoon supporting the impeachment

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The impeachment began after Nixon was charged with obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and tax fraud. the impeachment didn't work out very well though as nixon resigned while the impeachment was happening.

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Gerald R. ford became president after Nixon as his vice president stepped down as well, shortly after he became president he passed a pardon for Nixon claiming "he already suffered enough."