Since President Gerald Ford pardoned President Richard Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate scandal of 1972, people have been arguing whether Ford made the right decision. Some people believe that due to the state of the country at the time, Ford made the right decision. But others believe that since Nixon walked away without punishment, justice was never served. With all these different views, what does the evidence say is right? When a person carefully considers the evidence, he finds that President Gerald Ford should not have pardoned President Richard Nixon.
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. But this was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixons reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. While no one is sure whether Nixon knew about the Watergate espionage operation before it happened, he took steps to cover it up afterwards, raising hush money for the burglars, trying to stop the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from investigating the crime, destroying evidence, holding secret meetings in the Oval Office and firing uncooperative staff members. When the Watergate hearings began to show that Nixon was involved in these activities, Americans were shocked. Then, on June 25, 1973 John Dean, one of Nixon's aides who was involved in the break-in, testified against Nixon, proclaiming that Nixon had secretly taped every conversation that took place in the Oval Office. Knowing that those tapes could lead to proof of the presidents guilt, prosecutors tried everything to get their hands on them. But Nixon fought back and held on to the tapes as long as his power would allow him. But early in 1974, the cover-up began to fall apart, and on August 5, Nixon was forced by the Supreme Court to r...