States of America. He is synonymous with this title, because of his involvement in the great "Watergate" scandal.

It all started with the election of 1972, Nixon's bid for a second term of presidency. In his attempt at re-election,

Nixon took on a different strategy than any other re-election campaign of the past. Instead of using the usual

Republican National Committee for re-election, President Nixon divided his campaign into two separate

committees. These two committees were named , the Committee for re-election of the president, headed by Attorney

General , John Mitchell, and the finance committee to re-elect the president, headed by Secretary of Commerce,

Maurice Stans. "Together these committees managed to raise over sixty million dollars for the president' campaign."

(Sam J. Ervin, The Whole Truth, pg.36) The work of these two committees enabled Nixon to defeat democrat

nominee, George S. McGovern, by a landslide. This decision, by Nixon, would, in the future prove to be the

beginning of the end for a good old "Tricky Dick".

In his second term, Nixon was known to be positively in

Nixon refused and Jaworski sued him. As a result of this constant see-saw battle, the Supreme Court ruled that the

tapes confidential. The committee said that this was not good enough. "To try to buy more time, Nixon ordered that

impeached. Sensing defeat, Nixon released the remaining tapes, convincing all non-believers of his guilt on August

hide the identities of the people who ordered the burglary prompted this. The other two articles were,abusing

Nixon thought that he could walk right through this investigation unharmed, but he would find later that he had

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