failures of nixon's presidency
watergate scandal- this is when 5 men were caught breaking into the watergate hotel into democratic national headquarters. they were trying to find if the democrats had any dirt on them/if there was any dirt that they could use in the '72 election. first time they break in and leave undetected, then they came back to fix something and got caught. Woodward and Bernstein investigated the story. they felt something was fishy and decided to pursue it further. Woodward and Bernstein relied on an FBI informant "Deep Throat" to link the men to the Nixon White House-"follow the money"
find who paid the burglers to find out who is paying them.
they traced the money back to the re-election campaign
Nixon downplayed the scandal and denounced the story as biased and misleading
FBI eventually confirmed that Nixons aides attempted to sabotage the Democrats.
Nixon ended up resigning from presidency.
he was not really involved and if he had just apologized for it, things would have been better and it wouldn't have been so bad, but he tried to cover it up, making it worse.
the supreme court wanted the tapes, so nixon told them that he would give them "edited transcripts"
he eventually gave them the tapes, but things had been erased, but it was still incriminating against nixon.
Then we moved on to Gerald Ford.
took over when nixon resigned.. was not elected to be VP or president
Ford pardoned Nixon for the watergate scandal, which was something that really upset the American people and resulted in him not getting re-elected.
2 assassination attempts within 3 weeks
offered conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War draft dodgers
education for all handicapped children.. established special ed.
"whip inflation now" -called for Americans to reduce their spending in an attempt to stop inflation
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