Today we took notes on the Watergate scandal and witnessed how it escalated quickly to ending the Presidency of President Nixon. From the video and notes that I have seen and taken, I believe that it was wrong for Nixon to have hidden such important evidence from the jury, such as the tapes. By hiding the tapes Nixon made himself more suspicious, causing a lot of controversy with the American people, making them believe that he was hiding something. Some suspicious things that Nixon did was firing many of his people that worked for him or letting them go for a time off, Nixon had also ordered a reporter to write a report on him, saying that President Nixon himself, had absolutely nothing to do with the Watergate scandal. As the scandal got bigger, many who were involved in the scandal would order money from the White House in order to keep quiet from saying anything, this money was know as "hush money." Before the end of Nixon's Presidency the jury ordered for Nixon to give up the tapes, and after receiving the tapes what seemed odd from the them was that two apparently did not exist, and some had a few minutes deleted from them. From the tapes they later discovered from a conversation with Nixon and his men that Nixon ordered to asked for the FBI to forget all about the Watergate Scandal in order to get away with it, Nixon would've gotten in a huge mess for lying to the FBI, except that a few days later Nixon had ended his Presidency.
Do you think Nixon would have been impeached if he had turned the tapes over right away?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think would have happened to Nixon if he did not lie about the tapes?
ReplyDeleteI think that Nixon would have been impeached if he had turned in the tapes because he still did something wrong and the people wouldn't want to be president anymore because he lied to the people.
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ReplyDeleteLike I said in a previous Watergate blog post, I believe it would have been a much better and safer decision to come clean as soon as the matter arose. He made himself look worse and way more suspicious by denying everything, and should have just told the truth - as your President should be an honest and trustworthy person. I always wonder what could have happened if he had just told the truth and turned over the tapes. I wonder if he would have been impeached or if they would have given him a second chance.
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