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Nixon’s Failed Attempt at Protecting the
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Nixon's Failed Attempt at Protecting the Office of President
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In his Second Watergate Speech of August 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon tries to defend his culpability in the Republican Party actions discovered at the Watergate hotel and resultant impending impeachment by way of arguing for protection of the Office of the President by preventing certain aspects of the investigation through use of his power as president of the United States. This argument fails by virtue of the fact that, being under investigation for illegal acts, he is not in a position of protecting that office and his speech does not succeed in regaining that authority, making it a non-viable defense for his personal involvement in the Watergate activity. 2 works cited. jvNixonm.rtf
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actions discovered at the Watergate hotel and resultant impending impeachment by way of arguing for protection of the Office of the President by preventing certain aspects of the investigation through
use of his power as president of the United States. This argument fails by virtue of the fact that, being under investigation for illegal acts, he is not in a
position of protecting that office, making it a non-viable defense for his personal involvement in the Watergate activity. President Nixons major error
is in attempting to relieve Congress of their Constitutional right to remove him from office by endeavoring to present himself as responsible authority acting on behalf of the Office of
the President when his presidency is already in question. Nixon introduces the problem himself when he redirects the list of charges against himself to the Office of the President. Not
only is it not up to him to reroute actions implemented by Congress in their investigation of him, but no citizen has the right to stop a Congressional investigation into
the Office of President, including the President himself. Mainly, Nixon argues that the confidential White House tapes should not be allowed into
the hands of Congress because they contain sensitive information concerning military and other global activities falling strictly under the Office of the President according to the Constitution. However, what Nixon
intentionally ignores in his argument is the checks and balances system that provides right of oversight for the presidents office by the U.S. Congress. In the United States government, no
elected official is protected against illegal activity by the mere right of having obtained office. Because it relies on the caveat of office, pitting two of the triangles of power
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