Richard Nixon And The Watergate Scandal

Richard Nixon was known for opening the door to China, and bettering the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Richard Nixon was very famous for what he did, but on June 17, 1972 all of his fame changed. The Watergate incident was one of the most tragic events in the United States because the scandal involved a president, participating in a cover up. Richard Nixon was positive, but also negative to the United States because of the Watergate break-in. President Nixon did demonstrate good leadership, but at the sametime he displayed a careless example of leadership. After, demonstrating imperfect leadership to United State’s government, Nixon’s legacy was resigning office. Richard Nixon left with an imperfect legacy because
Prior to previous break-ins, On June 17, 1972, a security guard called police to inform them of a robbery taking place, on the 6th floor (were the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) office was located) at Watergates Hotel/Building, in Washington D.C. As police entered the facility, they saw that the doors were taped. Before, the robbers could even think of retreating, the police were already on the same floor where they were present. The police arrested the five men and took them to jail. According to History.com (nd),The five men’s names of the Watergate’s buglars were James McCord, Virgilio Gonzales, Eugenio Martinez, Frank Sturgis, and Bernard Barker. Each of them had thousands of dollars in cash, and also had expensive electrical equipment. This confirmation, relates to the leadership and legacy, by the five men having to be apart of Nixon’s imperfect leadership. After, learning about what had happen inside Watergate and analyzing the evidence, the robbers would had done a major impact to Richard Nixon’s leadership
The White House rejected to being apart of the Watergate Scandal. Immediately, FBI launched an investigation to try to go beyond the Watergate Scandal. Following the FBI’s investigation, (FBI.gov nd) The FBI analyzed the background of James W. McCord. They found out on October 1, 1971, that McCord was a former FBI agent and a retired CIA official. McCord began a part-time job at consulting the works for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (known as CRP, but later nicknamed CREEP). According to a FBI timeline (also found on FBI.gov), on January 27, 1972 a meeting occur in the Attorney General Offices, attended by John N. Mitchell, Jeb Stuart Magruder , and John W. Dean III, Gordon Liddy presented in the meeting, a plan which involved illegal activities in electrical surveillance of various potential opponents of the president and Democratic Party facilities. The plan that Liddy presented to the meeting, was estimated to cost around one million dollars, stated in the testimonies of John Mitchell and John Dean. Also on the FBI timeline, on May 22-28 of 1972, Bernard Baker, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank A. Sturgis, Renaldo Pico, and Felipe DeDiego arrive in Washington D.C., to begin a series of meetings with E. Howard Hunt, G Gordon Liddy, and James McCord. On May 22, 1972, Hunt and Gonzalez attempted to break-in the DNC (Democratic National Committee), but