Nixon Above the Law for the Watergate Scandal - Plumber & CREEP

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President Richard Nixon is most commonly known for his involvement with the Watergate Scandal. President Nixon is a very competitive politition who has been finding who his enemys are and what their weak spots are through all of his career. His purpose for doing this is that he wants to win the election so much and he feels that “the only way he can [win] is if he knows something about his opponent that can give himself some secret weapon” (Sussman 201). President Nixon got himself into many problems during his Presidency and used groups such as “The Plumbers” and the Committee to Re-Elect the President, more commonly known as CREEP. While President Nixon was in office, he seemed to feel that he was “above the law” and that he could create undercover groups to spy or even blackmail his opponents. Although Nixon did commit several crimes while in office, which include lying under oath…….., the main crime was in the forming of these groups like the Plumbers, because these groups were formed with a main purpose of breaking laws.

A year before the election of 1972, President Nixon was becoming nervous about what the Deomocrats were planning on for the election. Nixon wanted to be re-elected but he did not think he could become re-elected without some sort of help. Nixon decided to send a group of spies to investigate what was going on at the Democrat Headquarters to see if they had any plans on how they were going to bring down Nixon. Supposedly hired by Nixon, a group of five men went to the Watergate hotel and stole some documents. Unsatisfied with what they found, they returned three weeks later intending to fix wiretaps that were not working and photograph documents. However while they were inside the building these fiv...

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...y and others used to be treated like Kings. Kennedy would bring in movie stars to the White House and cheat on his wife, and the journalists and news would just look away saying that the people do not need or want to know this. However today, Presidents are constantly being checked on and having trials. In the Clinton trials journalists did not just turn their heads, they tried to get the American People the whole story.

“The view on Presidents being above the law has changed more in those four years than it has ever” (Bradford 18). America no longer views the President of the United States as above the law, and for the most part neither do the Presidents. Today a President would not even think about creating secret groups whos main purpose is to blackmail or threaten. Watergate helped form America as a better country and have better checks on Presidents.

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