United States v. Nixon

The Cover-up

1. Regardless of the outcome, should the President of the United States have a right to privacy in regards to the Oval Office tapes? Explain.
The President of the United States should not have a right in regards to the oval office tapes because as President he gives up certain rights of privacy in order to serve the American people. The public deserves to have knowlage of what is on the tapes if it could be used to clear up an issue about the presidency, or if they could be used in court. It is very simular to the police searching a home, if it could help the case than it is nessessary to do.

2. Was President Nixon justified when he fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox? Explain.
Nixon was no justified when he fired SP Cox because if he was in a normal trial than he would basicaly be the defendant fireing the prosecution because he didn't like them. This means that he was above the law, which no one is.

3. Was Nixon creating a Constitutional crisis by refusing to hand-over the tapes? Explain.
Nixon was creating a Constitutional crisis be refusing to hand-over the tapes because he did something no other president had done in a situation that no other president had been in, and claimed that things that were to be used in a case were dangeorus for national security, and that they were his own property.

Closure

4. Why do you think the American public was so outraged by Watergate?
The American public was so outraged with Watergate because Nixon had lied to them for so long and that he would try to fix an election.

5. Do you think President Nixon should have resigned? Explain.
I do think that Nixon should have resigned because he had tarnished the presidency, and would only have done this further if he was impeached, being the first president to be done that to.
6. Do you think President Nixon should have been prosecuted? Explain.
I do think that Nixon should have been prosecuted because no one is above the law, and if he wasn't prosecuted it would have been saying that he was.

Watergate: Nixon's Downfall

1. How were the "plumbers" connected to President Nixon?
NOT IN READING
2. Who was the judge? Why did he hand out maximum sentences?
The judge was John Sirica
3. How were Mitchell and Dean connected to Nixon?
Mitchell was Nixon's former attorny general, he was also the director of CRP, Dean was a White House councel and he was the first to start to convict Nixon.
4. How were Haldeman and Erlichman connected to Nixon?
Halderman was the White House Chief of Staff and Erlichman was the cheif domestic advisor to the president.
5. What did the following men tell the Senate about Nixon?

a. Dean
Dean to told the Senate that Nixon was deeply involved in the cover up.
b. Butterfield
Butterfield revealed that the president had taped all of his conversations as president.
6. Who was fired or forced to resign in the "massacre"?
In the massacre Richardson, Cox, and Jaworski had to leave office.
7. Why weren't investigators satisified with the transcripts?
The investigaters weren't satisfied with the trascripts because they were eddited, and were not of all of the tapes.
8. What did the tapes reveal?
The tapes confermed that the allagations against Nixon were all true, and that he did try to coverup the break it.
9. Why did Vice President Spiro Agnew resign?
Agnew resigned because he had accepted bribes from engeneering firms while govemer of Maryland.
10. What did the House Judiciary Committee charge President Nixon with?
The house judiciary committee charged Nixon with obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of congress.
11. How did the Watergate scandal create a constitutional crisis?
The Watergate scandal created a constitutional problem because Nixon claimed that they were his personal properaty, and that they were a matter of national security.