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Nixon's biggest scandal is the Watergate Scandal

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The Watergate Scandal started in June 1972 when two "burglars" were caught robbing the office of the Democratic National Office, which were in the Watergate complex.

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However, the robbers were actually connected to Nixon's re-election campaign and were caught stealing official documents and wiretapping government phones. People then started to believe that Nixon could be involved in the robbery. As news broke out to the public, citizens kept asking Nixon and the government if all of these accusations are true. Nixon denied the claims every single time. Every single time, he would say "I am not a crook".

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Once this case when to Court, the Supreme Court demanded to hear the tapes that Nixon recorded of all of his activities. Nixon was positive he wouldn't get caught, he even said "You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
Eventually, the court found a tape in which Nixon is heard to be covering up many incidents around Watergate, and he was then found guilty of being involved in the scandal.

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Once the news spread, the public became furious; not only did Nixon conspire with the robbers, but he lied about it multiple times. He constantly denied his involvement and claimed that no cabinet member had the ability to abuse their power, both of which were not true.

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Before this, people always had the preconceived notion that presidents were smart men with good morals,and people usually blindly supported their leader. But now, the public didn't know what to believe. They started losing faith in their president and began to wonder if their country was in  good hands. Bob Woodward, a journalist, summed up America's feelings pretty well: "The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."

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After Nixon was caught lying and abusing his power by contributing to the scandal, he resigned and Gerald Ford took his place as president. When he was asked to speak on his opinion of Watergate, he only said "The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election."