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Watergatecommittees were crucial in getting the resignation of Nixon, while therecommendation by the Judiciary committee to try to impeach thepresident was carried in votes by both the Republican and Democraticmembers (Farnsworth 6). The power of the Supreme Court over the Executive branch wasshown with the ruling that Nixon must turn over the tapes of the OvalOffice (Farnsworth 7). The separation of powers means that no member of any of the threedifferent parts of the government may belong or be a member of another(Farnsworth 7). As a good example of the checks and balances, while the president isthe head of the government he cannot control the legislature. While thepresident has to appoint the Judicial arm of the government, they have tobe approved by the Senate. The president

serves a four year term andcan only be removed from office by mpeachment. The Senate is the onlypart of the government that can impeach the president, but theimpeachment process must start in the Mouse of Representatives(Farnsworth 7). Different branches of goverment have separate responsibilities. Thepresident is on a fixed term and he is accountable to the House ofRepresentatives, the part of the government that most reflects the currentopinion of the nation. The Senate where each state has two senatorsregardless of population, is the only part that can remove the president(Farnsworth 8). Although the tapes played a major part in obtaining President Nixon’sresignation, legal actions taken by the President managed to keep all butthe forty hours of tapes from being released

before his death twenty yearslater (Secret 1974 1). It is now some twenty five years after the beginning of Watergate, andthe Nixon tapes are still making the news. In a recent court battle, theNixon family lost their fight to keep the remaining tapes sealed. TheNational Archives have just released some two hundred hours of tapes,one which has President Nixon telling his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman tobreak into the Brookings Institution to remove documents concerning theVietnam War. The publisher of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg andformer Pentagon analyst, had several colleagues that worked at theBrooking Institution. Although there was never any record of a break-in at the Brookingsinstitution, all of this is just one more piece of evidence of the many illegalacts that

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