Nixon And The Watergate Scandal

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Finally in July Nixon was ordered by the Supreme Court to overturn the remaining tapes. While Nixon procrastinated on doing so the House of Representatives voted to impeach president Nixon for many violations to the constitution, abuse of presidential power, criminal cover-up, and obstruction of justice. Then on August 5th Nixon had finally surrendered the tapes providing the obvious proof of his affiliation in the Watergate scandal. However before facing impeachment by the Senate Nixon instead resigned on August 8th.

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