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What exactly happened during the Watergate Scandal (In regards to the burglary)?

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What exactly happened during the Watergate Scandal (In regards to the burglary)?

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The answer to all of your questions is not actually known, even now, after many of the principal players are dead. O’Brien did not have any information capable of proving Nixon had traded political favours with Howard Hughes in return for several large loans for his brother and other friends…but O’Brien had certainly told people that he did have that information. This is the key — Nixon thought that O’Brien had information linking him to various bribes, and that this information would be able to destroy his chances in the election of November, 1972. Nixon’s desire to cover up this non-existent information may have led to the Watergate break-in Of course, he might have been able to gain a serious amount of information about various Democrats by bugging the office of the Chairman of the DNC that might have proved useful, too. None of this mattered, in the event. Nixon was forced to resign when a tape (from June 23, 1972) was made public in August 1974. On the tape, he clearly conspire

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