The thing is, he is competing with another competitor. His opponent is a Democrat. The place controlled by the Democratic Party is called Watergate Building, which is someone else's headquarters. Naturally, he talked a lot about politics and a lot of campaign-related information. He sent his men to install monitoring information in that place, that is, to record the voice of the Prime Minister, although he did not have such a developed pinhole camera in the last century. After all, he was also the president of the United States.
Unfortunately, I found out later. Of course, he didn't admit it after he found out. It is impossible for normal people to admit it. If this kind of thing really settles, it can be said that he will do almost anything as president. Although there can be competition between them, this way of touching the bottom line is not allowed by either side, because if you play like this today and I play like this tomorrow, then this election will be meaningless. There is competition between the two sides.
The Watergate Investigation Committee got the news that Nixon began to punish him at 197 1 in order to grasp the competition between his subordinates and opponents. Contact with people to monitor, this is the main telephone recording. At that time, he refused to hand it over, but it was opposed by all forces in the United States, whether it was religion, the Supreme Court or ordinary people, or his opponent. Democratic Progressive Party took his behavior seriously, but some things that came out in the end were worthless at first, but the final outcome was inevitable, because in any case, the power of individuals could not override the whole country.