one outcome of the watergate scandal was the?

Question

1) impeachment of nixon
2) resignation of gerald ford
3) conviction of nixon by the senate
4) resignation of richard nixon

Answer 1

impeachment of nixon. though I d like to think it also brought home the fact that any form of goverment is only as good as the people who police it.

Answer 2

4. Richard Nixon resigned.

He resigned because he knew he would be impeached if he didn't. The main article of impeachment was, "obstruction of justice", which is a felony. He "obstructed justice" by ordering a coverup of the break in of the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate hotel.

He didn't order the break in, but found out about it very soon afterwards, and did everything he could to stop the reporters, the FBI, the CIA, and DC police from finding out that people on his 1972 re-election campaign were responsible. G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt (who died just recently) were the main planners. They were "bugging" the office and looking for evidence that George McGovern's presidential campaign had taken money from Fidel Castro. (Which would have been devastating to the Democrats, if true, of course.)

Nixon resigned to avoid the disgrace of impeachment and the very likely removal from office by force. One of the articles of impeachment was the illegal bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam war. Strangely, the bombing alone was probably insufficient to get him impeached, even though lives were lost.

The Watergate investigations brought to the surface an entire underworld of long term corruption throughout his administration and political history. Therefore, the Watergate scandal was about much more than the burglary.

Nixon resigned on August 9th 1974. By resigning, Nixon was able to keep his pension. Gerald Ford, the vice-president automatically became president.

President Ford gave a complete pardon to Nixon after becoming president. Ford claimed he pardoned Nixon because the legal aftermath of Watergate was taking all of his time, skeptics claim a deal was made between Nixon and Ford.

Answer 3

I am not sure what you refer to when you say the resignation of Gerald Ford. Ford did not resign, unless it was from Congress to assume the Presidency. He was not elected to a term as President but did well for what he was asked to do in that point of our history. The outcome of Watergate is that the media saw that they had to power to manipulate public opinion by slanting stories. There certainly has never been an assertion that anything associated with the Watergate break in altered the McGovern/Nixon election as it was not really that big a deal. If Nixon had not lied about his knowledge of it there probably would not have been much said. This marks the first time that politicians used the judicial system as a stage for political postering and tried to make big things out of little incidents. Since then we hear the word impeachment constantly from political cultists. I think Dems and Repubs share in the polarization of the country and both extremes love to make press releases calling for the impeachment of each President and the media plays along as though it woud happen. Clinton was to be impeached over a ******** but the cultist kept saying it was because he lied (which he certainly did) but how much of that was established when Nixon resigned because he lied about his knowledge of the Watergate burglars. During Watergate much was made about Nixon taping his meetings..it was made to sound like a major scandal that he secrently taped. Johnson, his predecessor taped all of his meetings and they are still doing it. Why is it not important now? Because it was a media made issue. The major impact of Watergate was that reporters found that if they exaggerated things and preyed upon political cultists and quoted bizarre or unknown sources to keep the country in turmoil. Watergate is like Halloween to people everyone interprets it in different ways. Nixon is almost completely unknown beyond this incident and all things bad, for the extreme left, was blamed on Nixon. The political left came to believe that if they could not win an election they could obstruct the process. Nixon is blamed for the Vietnam War and yet Kennedy and Johnson ran the war for eight years and escalated it to immense proportions. (I served there and believe me the Dem Presidents and Congress was the most dangerous enemy of the American soldier) Nixon reduced troop levels and forced North Vietnam to negotiate. He ended the war and there can be no doubt about that but not if you ask political cultists. If John Edwards is elected next and pulls the troops out of Iraq will he be blamed for the war or credited it with ending it. Watergate marks the loss of public accountability for public officials and the American press. That is the legacy of Watergate.

Answer 4

#4

The effects of the Watergate scandal did not by any means end with the resignation of President Nixon and the imprisonment of some of his aides. The effect on the upcoming Senate election and House race only three months later, was enormous; voters, disgusted by Nixon's actions, became thoroughly disillusioned with the Republican Party. In that Election, the Democrats gained five seats in the Senate and a remarkable 49 in the House.

Answer 5

Number 4. Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment. Ford lost the 1976 election to Carter, so #2 is wrong.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I can't believe that two out of three people actually think Nixon was Impeached. He was not. Had he not resigned, he very likely would have been, but he was not impeached.

I think the most interesting outcome of the Watergate scandal was the creation of the suffix "-gate" to be added to any regular word to indicate that there is a scandal attached to it.

Answer 8

#4. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974.