A look at the constitutional crisis that resulted in President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.
President Richard Nixon is reelected in 1972, but attacks from the media and the antiwar movement goad him to take the dark path to the Watergate burglary.
The arrests lead to a cover-up, but it starts to unravel after Nixon's landslide re-election.
As the cover-up cracks, White House counsel John Dean turns on Nixon, a Senate committee is formed and a special prosecutor is appointed.
The Senate Watergate Committee and the Watergate Special Prosecutor confront Nixon in a deepening Constitutional crisis.
The Saturday Night Massacre prompts impeachment proceedings and a Supreme Court confrontation.
Impeachment votes, Supreme Court rulings and further revelations seal Richard Nixon's fate.
Charles Ferguson
Narrator (voice)
Douglas Hodge
Richard Nixon
John Hopkins
H.R. Bob Haldeman
Will Keen
John Ehrlichman
Elliot Levey
Henry Kissinger
Carl Bernstein
Self
Mark Dexter
John Dean
Lesley Stahl
Dan Rather
John McCain
Bob Woodward
Robert Morgan
Billy Graham
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