Regisnation of President Nixon

What the men in the White House were involved in, without ever admitting it to themselves, was the management of an unstable personality (White, 1975, p, 13).

Of course, White could hardly know for certain what other men were or were not admitting to themselves, but the likelihood remains that at the heart of the Watergate scandal was the "unstable personality" of one man, who happened at that time to be the President of the United States.

In other words, Nixon was responsible for his own downfall, but like every leader in history who suffered from hubris, and perhaps a dab of paranoia, Nixon blamed everybody around him for his problems. In those around him there may have been an unstable personality or two as well, but the role of "the President's men" in the tragedy was to carry out the orders, explicit or implicit, which saw everyone outside that small circle as the enemy.

Nixon was elected in 1968 and re-elected in 1972 by substantial margins. He had risen from a political graveyard, having lost the Presidential race in 1960 and the California gove

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ough the White House and the President's men: on September 29, 1972, "John Mitchell, while serving as attorney general, controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance widespread intelligencegathering operations against the Democrats" (Washington Post, 1997, p. 5). On October 10, 1972, agents of the FBI discovered that the Watergate burglary was directly or indirectly the result of a planned campaign of spying and sabotage for political purposes carried out in the name of if not the direct behest of the President and his reelection campaign. However, on November 7, 1972, despite the brewing storm surrounding the Watergate burglary, Nixon was reelected in one of the biggest landslides in the history of the nation, with over 60 percent of the vote (Washington Post, 1997, p. 6). On January 30, 1973, Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men pleaded guilty.... [On April 30, 1973] Nixon's top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired (Washington Post, 1997, p. 7). Dean's firing was prelu
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