https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm en-us 2023-04-20 11:23:34 UTC 2025-09-26 08:11:04 UTC hello@padlet.com hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561677756 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.]]> 2023-04-20 11:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561677756 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561707609 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.]]> 2023-04-20 11:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561707609 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561717672 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.]]> 2023-04-20 11:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561717672 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561728490 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.]]> 2023-04-20 12:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561728490 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561741121 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.]]> 2023-04-20 12:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561741121 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561753548 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.]]> 2023-04-20 12:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561753548 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561756920 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.]]> 2023-04-20 12:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561756920 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561830360 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.]]> 2023-04-20 13:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561830360 hjouvelakas https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561835869 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. ]]> 2023-04-20 13:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hjouvelakas/fwpsp05z07w6ywjm/wish/2561835869