What did NIxon do that was bad that got him impeached that got him to left the office?

Question

Nixon killed somebody and he was holding gun that smoke?

Answer 1

Nixon was never impeached. In those last days (end of July and the beginning of August, 1974) the Congress was coming up with enough votes to impeach him in the house, which would have led to a trial in the Senate, that might have resulted in his removal (a trial is still a trial, remember Clinton was impeached, but the Senate didn't convict him and remove him).

The break in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in July 1972 was just the beginning. The real problem was that the connection between the Watergate burglars and the White House was covered up, and at a level high enough to implicate the President. There was never a "smoking gun" discovered to demonstrate that he was directly involved. The smoking gun analogy comes from Watergate, indicating that if someone had been shot, and multiple people were in the room when it happened, the one holding the pistol that still had smoke coming from the barrel was the one what done it..

There were listening devices in the Oval Office at the time. These had been in place for many years, but they became known to the public only after Watergate. The tapes were turned over to a committee of the House of Representatives chaired by Sam Ervin, charged with investigating the cover up.
There was a special investigator hired by the White House to investigate this case, working to uncover information to supply to the committee. That man's name was Archibald Cox, and the Saturday Night Massacre was when the White House tried to find someone to fire him and they couldn't. They kept ordering Deputy Attorneys General to do it, and they kept refusing, being fired for it. They finally found Robert Bork, who fired Cox and then turned in his own resignation.
A young lawyer named Hillary Rodham worked for the Special Prosecutor's office.

Answer 2

Nixon left before he was impeached. Impeached doesn't actually mean to remove from office. All it means is that they will be publically tried for something they did wrong.

He taped things that went on in his office, and was tangled up in the whole Watergate scandel. Pretty complicated...

Answer 3

The main thing that Nixon did was to not tell the truth when confronted about Watergate. He should have just set there with no expression on his face and say...I did not have sex with that woman.....then he would have been OK ...and everyone in the USA would love him and his wife...well almost anyway....ha ha ha

Answer 4

Wow William hit the nail right on the head. I wonder if his name is really G Gordon Liddy?

Answer 5

Lied to Congress and the people who had elected him

Answer 6

Compared to what goes on now.....Nothing!