3 Rare Nixon's Water Gate & Resignation Newspapers

3 Rare Nixon's Water Gate & Resignation Newspapers

NIXON QUITS TONIGHT . New York Post , EXTRA Aug/ 8th/ 1974
In its issue of Aug. 8, 1974, the New York Post announced that Richard Nixon would resign from the U.S. presidency that evening.

WHAT NIXON KNEW & WHEN HE KNEW IT , New York Post, May / 7 /1974

NIXON RESIGNS New York Times Aug/ 9/ 1974
A congressional hearing about President Nixon’s Watergate break-in scandal revealed that he had installed a tape-recording device in the Oval Office. The special prosecutor in charge of the case wanted access to these taped discussions to help prove that President Nixon and his aides had abused their power and broken the law. President Nixon claimed executive privilege and refused to hand over the tapes. President Nixon’s incomplete compliance with the special prosecutor’s demands was challenged and eventually taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court decided that executive privilege is not limitless, and the tapes were released.