107th Watergate - By ESL Garden

On June 17, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate saw that someone had put tape on the parking lot door so it wouldn't lock. He thought the janitors did it and took it off. Later that night he saw tape on the door again, so he called the police. The police arrested 5 men who had broken into the Democrats' office. The men worked for the Republicans. They had broken into the office three weeks before to put in microphones. The microphones didn't work, so they were trying to fix them. Archibald Cox still wanted the tapes, so Nixon fired him. This made millions of Americans mad. Nixon had to hire a new lawyer and give him the tapes. The tapes showed that many of Nixon's staff lied to Cox. This was illegal, and many of them went to jail. Then they found one more tape. This tape was from a few days after the Watergate break-in. President Nixon was talking to his staff manager about how to lie to the people investigating Watergate.