He was american foreign policy, he was a well respected man around the world. How he got mixed up with Nixon I really don't know but was one of the good things that Nixon did by appointing him to sec of state.

The development of nuclear-powered submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles meant that the United States, and later, the Soviets, possessed second-strike capability. If Soviet missiles destroyed the United States, American submarines could still launch their missiles against the Soviets. In the end, there would be no winner.

several burglars were arrested, they were located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: They were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign.

It later came up that Nixon was not being truthful. A few days after the break-in, he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the burglars.

Judge John Sirica gaveled the trial of the Watergate. Federal investigators had already discovered a covert fund used to hide the activities against Democrats. The money and the men on trial could be linked to the Committee to Re-elect the President.

Richard Nixon secretly recorded 3,700 hours of his phone calls and meetings across the executive offices. They remain perhaps the greatest treasure of information ever left by a president.

Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America."