Deciphering The Presidentials Tapes Watergate

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Deciphering The Presidential Tapes
Ever since I can remember I have always heard, whether over the news or on an educational channel, about the Watergate scandal. I never knew what the Watergate scandal wasabout, but I did know that it had to do with one our former Presidents. Before I read "Breaking into Watergate" I had no clue about all the lies and betrayals that went on in the highest and most prestigious office in America. It is very important as a history major to have read this article so that I am no longer oblivious to what went on in the Oval Office prior to June7, 1972.
As I started to read through this article the realization of what the Watergate scandal was, became more and more clear. The information that I read was very upsetting and discomforting. To know that a President of the United State would be so deceitful and disloyal to not only his piers but also to the people of the United States is very upsetting but unfortunately is not too uncommon these days. Reading about President Nixon trying to bribe witnesses with money and trying to blackmail the opposition was mind boggling. President Nixon did almost everything perfect and might of slipped past the accusations except for the fact that he forgot about the tapes that recorded his phone conversations. Donald Sanders was very smart to think of something that none of the other investigators thought of; a tapping system. Alexander Butterfield, when reminded that he was under oath, admitted that there was a recording system in the White House which no longer made John Dean's testimony just his word against the President's(Breaking Into Watergate, 341). Knowing that John Dean would stand up and tell the truth, despite being told to do otherwise, makes at least one good moral story come out of the scandal.
In the thirty years that the presidents had been making secret recordings, on and off, all of them had their different reasons. In nin…