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.