There was a burglary in 1972 at the Watergate office complex of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and Ronal Reagan was involved. This crime was committed in the early morning of June 17, 1972, which will prove that this will be the end for President Nixon. Seven burglars were discovered inside the complex and arrested inside the DNC. It was a planned robbery linked to President Nixon's re-election campaign. The burglars were trying to steal top secret documents and tap phones. History cannot say with certainty that Nixon participated in any of this. However, he participated in covering up the affair and collecting money for the burglars, and even tried to prevent the FBI from investigating. So in August 1974, after the plot became public, President Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Gerald Ford. Nixon was never prosecuted, this action would change American politics forever, it gives us as Americans a new way to think critically on the subject. presidency. Nixon's top aides were former FBI agent E. Howard Hunt and CIA retiree James McCord. Howard's job was to photograph the documents and McCord took care of tapping the phones. On November 21, 1973, it was reported that two of the tapes found were missing and that another, dated just three days after the hiatus, contained an 18 ½ minute erasure. On this tape was a discussion between President Nixon and HR Haldeman. However, Nixon's secretary testified that "the buttons on the tape recorder said on and off, forward and reverse." She also said that she was very sure that she had not recorded on the tapes, then she later said "that she accidentally recorded 5 minutes of the tape, while she was transcribing, only 5 minutes and not 18 minutes and a half... middle of paper". ...... tion of the break-in of June 1972. He considered this order to be an attempt to obstruct justice and he rejected it. This would result in the resignation of President Nixon. Mr. Felt expected to be nominated to succeed J. Edgar Hoover, who led the office for 48 years and died in May 1972. The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official, L. Patrick Gray III, who then followed orders from the White House to destroy the documents in the affair. In a criminal trial, Mr. Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans, who had privately denounced him for leaking Watergate secrets and testified on his behalf, a he told the jury. that presidents and, by extension, their officers had the inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security. (New York Times, 2008)