A man who has never been fascinated by something bigger than himself has lost one of life's greatest experiences. Only by being fascinated can he know himself. Only by being fascinated can he discover that he never knew what he had, otherwise he would still be dormant...
——Nixon (1913-1994)
In the past experience, Nixon's name has always been distinct to the Chinese, The trip to China in February 1972 made him the first US president to visit New China, and it also fundamentally opened the door to Sino-US relations. However, the Watergate scandal on June 17, 1972 completely changed the political trajectory of the US president. The origin of the Watergate incident was that President Nixon ordered Charles Coulson to investigate the intelligence of Larry O'Brien, the head of the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but the Democrats had long been wary of this, and the CIA had been monitoring it from beginning to end. The whereabouts of the eavesdropper. So, when five wearing gloves, eavesdropping tools and electronic bugs, appeared at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate apartment in the early morning of June 17, before they could perform any operations, they were lurking for a long time. Detectives captured. At that time, no one thought that this wiretapping incident would have such a huge impact in the future. It was during the U.S. presidential election campaign, so this incident also involved the officials in the presidential campaign committee. During the fact-finding process, some Administration officials have resigned successively, including former Attorney General John Mitchell, former White House chief of staff Haldeman, and former Interior Department general counsel Ehrlichman. At first, Nixon vehemently denied that the wiretapping had anything to do with him, but when the court asked him to hand over the tapes of his attempts to evade investigation, the truth became clear.
On July 8, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled against Nixon by a vote of eight to none. Meanwhile, newspaper editorials called for his resignation, and Congress kept calling for his impeachment. On August 8, 1974, Nixon was forced to resign from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal, becoming the first president in U.S. history to resign to avoid congressional impeachment for his abuse of power. In the history of Nixon movies, almost all of them focus on the Watergate scandal, with Oliver Stone's "Nixon" in 1995 and Ron Howard's "Conversation with Nixon" in 2008 being the most famous. [Nixon] tried to discuss the success or failure of Nixon's political career, who was removed from office due to the Watergate scandal, from an objective standpoint. Stone used a three-hour length to restore the real Nixon. In one detail in the film, a female student asked the president in person: "Why can't you stop the Vietnam War as president? Is it because of this system?" Nixon seemed to understand, he said to his subordinates: "She understands what I have spent twenty-five years in politics to understand..."[ Conversation with Nixon] offers an apparently more specific entry point. In the years following the Watergate scandal, Nixon remained tight-lipped until the summer of 1977, when he received his first interview with British talk show host David Foster. An exclusive interview about the Watergate scandal and his forced resignation. That interview changed the history of television interviews forever, and it profoundly affected American politics. Nixon opened up about everything that happened during his presidency, the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the Apollo moon landing, the Vietnam armistice, and the Watergate incident. The interview process was originally adapted into a play, and then was put on the screen by Ron Howard. When the film reaches the climax of the interview, when Nixon admits "I let the American people down" and "Once the president wiretap means wiretapping is no longer illegal", this interview and film will be the best perspective on Nixon's political career. .
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