The men apprehended that night in 1972 would turn out to be employees of CREEP, The Committee to Re-Elect the President. They were attempting to repair a broken wiretap that they had planted in the office sometime before and were charged with breaking and entering along with attempting to bug a public facility. That November Nixon was was reelected by one of the largest margins in presidential history..

It seemed as if the ordeal would come to an end until a senate committee investigating corrupt campaign pr

After reviewing the transcripts the house judiciary committee can directly link Nixon to the cover-up of the Watergate crime. The weekend of July 27 the committee passed three articles of impeachment, charging the president with obstruction of justice. On August 9 Nixon announced his resignation. Vice President Gerald Ford succeeded him. Six weeks later President Ford pardoned Nixon of all wrongdoing during his presidency.

The interrogations of the men arrested would also lead to some of the highest positions within the executive branch. President Nixon was immediately questioned on the matter and he denied any connection or prior knowledge of the events that took place that night. The interrogations continued and little more evidence surfaced until two journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward for the Washington Post, released the startling testimony of the anonymous informant known to this day only as “Deep Throat”.

In what would be known as “The Saturday Night Massacre” Nixon fired Archibald Cox, forced Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus to

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