With his complicity in the cover-up made public, and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress.
The Nixon White House tapes revealed that he had conspired to cover up activities that took place after the break-in and had later tried to use federal officials to deflect attention from the investigation. Supreme Court ruled that Nixon had to release the Oval Office tapes to government investigators. Several major revelations and egregious presidential actions obstructing the investigation later in 1973 prompted the House to commence an impeachment process against Nixon. The Senate Watergate hearings were broadcast "gavel-to-gavel" nationwide by PBS, and they aroused public interest. Throughout the investigation, Nixon's administration resisted its probes, and this led to a constitutional crisis. Witnesses testified that Nixon had approved plans to cover up his administration's involvement in the break-in, and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office. Senate Watergate Committee, which held hearings.
House Judiciary Committee additional investigative authority-to probe into "certain matters within its jurisdiction", and led the Senate to create the U.S. Further investigations, along with revelations during subsequent trials of the burglars, led the House of Representatives to grant the U.S. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building.Īfter the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.
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