Nixon refuses to turn over tapes
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- Alexander Butterfield gets questioned
- I didn't do anything
- The oval office investigates
- Nixon Believes he's innocent
- I am inocent so theres no reason to have me on trial.
- THe president would like to use excutive order to drop all charges
- Alexander Butterfield was asked if there were any tapes regarding the white house secret docs. being broke into. And the Water Gate scandle.
- The leading to the "Saturday Night Massacre
- The oval office were ready to look at the tapes and use them as evidence to see if Nixon is guilty for the Watergate scandal and the stolen documents
- Publics reaction
- Knowing that he was guilty, Nixon told them to not show the tapes and throw them away. And then he stated they should just drop his case. He used excutive to have them drop the case.
- Pleading gulity
- I plead guilty.
- Impeach him!!!
- Cox's refusal to drop his subpoena led to the "Saturday Night Massacre" on October 20, 1973, when Nixon compelled the resignations of Richardson and then his deputy William Ruckelshaus in a search for someone in the Justice Department willing to fire Cox. This search ended with Solicitor General Robert Bork, and the new acting department head dismissed the special prosecutor.
- He is a liar!!
- Public reaction was immediate and intense, with protestors standing along the sidewalks outside the White House holding signs saying "HONK TO IMPEACH," and hundreds of cars driving by honking their horns.
- Honk to Impeach!!
- HONK TO IMPEACH!!
- On January 28, 1974, Nixon campaign aide Herbert Porter pleaded guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI during the early stages of the Watergate investigation. On February 25, Nixon's personal lawyer Herbert Kalmbach pleaded guilty to two charges of illegal election-campaign activities
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