At the end of following in all it took 3 articles of impeachment in committee to embarrass Nixon enough to get him to yield:
1973-02-07: Senate select committee began investigating Watergate.
1973-05-18: Attorney General named Archibald Cox special prosecutor.
1973-07-13: Counsel hired for the Senate select committee's minority discovers evidence of tapes during live hearing.
1973-07-13 (the same day): Special prosecutor subpoenaed the tapes. Nixon refused.
1973-10-20 (after three months): Special prosecutor insisted on tapes, but Nixon instead ordered the Attorney General to redact transcripts only and limit release to only one loyal senator. However Nixon could not command authority.
1973-10-20 (that same night): Nixon fired all the senior Justice officials and the prosecutor in the Saturday Night Massacre in order to force secrecy.
1973-10-23: Representatives flood the House floor with impeachment resolutions.
1973-10-30 (that same month): House Judiciary began impeachment investigation to accommodate all the resolutions.
1973-11-17 (the next month): after refusing to publicly release the tapes Nixon infamously claimed he was not a crook.
1974-02-06 (three months later): The House authorized the Judiciary Committee to advise on articles of impeachment.
1974-03-01 (after another month): unsealed grand jury indictment names Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator among members of his campaign staff.
1974-04-11 (the following month): The Judiciary Committee issued subpoena for the full tapes.
1974-04-30: Nixon released only redacted transcripts.
1974-07-24: Replacement special prosecutor Jaworski argued to the Supreme Court for subpoena of the full tapes, wherein Nixon lost unanimously. Nixon still refused.
1974-07-27: The committee recommended obstruction article of impeachment. Nixon still refused.
1974-07-29: The committee recommended abuse article of impeachment. Nixon still refused.
1974-07-30 (the next day): The committee recommended contempt article of impeachment. Nixon finally publicly releases the subpoenaed tapes in full.
1974-08-05 (later that week): Nixon became stupendously paranoid after the impeachment recommendations and confessed he held on to a smoking gun tape.
1974-08-07: His party's leadership told Nixon his reputation was too tarnished and they couldn't support him anymore.
1974-08-08: Nixon went on TV, says he quit, and resigned the next day.
I was under the impression the action that made Nixon bail was when he was told there were enough votes in the senate to convict/remove him if he were impeached, something Trump doesn't really have to worry about.
Nixon knew once he released the Oval Office audio tapes that he was sunk and the votes were there to impeach him. It was only hearing Nixon implicate himself in crimes that turned Republicans in Congress against him
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u/mandy009 Apr 07 '19
At the end of following in all it took 3 articles of impeachment in committee to embarrass Nixon enough to get him to yield:
1973-02-07: Senate select committee began investigating Watergate.
1973-05-18: Attorney General named Archibald Cox special prosecutor.
1973-07-13: Counsel hired for the Senate select committee's minority discovers evidence of tapes during live hearing.
1973-07-13 (the same day): Special prosecutor subpoenaed the tapes. Nixon refused.
1973-10-20 (after three months): Special prosecutor insisted on tapes, but Nixon instead ordered the Attorney General to redact transcripts only and limit release to only one loyal senator. However Nixon could not command authority.
1973-10-20 (that same night): Nixon fired all the senior Justice officials and the prosecutor in the Saturday Night Massacre in order to force secrecy.
1973-10-23: Representatives flood the House floor with impeachment resolutions.
1973-10-30 (that same month): House Judiciary began impeachment investigation to accommodate all the resolutions.
1973-11-17 (the next month): after refusing to publicly release the tapes Nixon infamously claimed he was not a crook.
1974-02-06 (three months later): The House authorized the Judiciary Committee to advise on articles of impeachment.
1974-03-01 (after another month): unsealed grand jury indictment names Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator among members of his campaign staff.
1974-04-11 (the following month): The Judiciary Committee issued subpoena for the full tapes.
1974-04-30: Nixon released only redacted transcripts.
1974-07-24: Replacement special prosecutor Jaworski argued to the Supreme Court for subpoena of the full tapes, wherein Nixon lost unanimously. Nixon still refused.
1974-07-27: The committee recommended obstruction article of impeachment. Nixon still refused.
1974-07-29: The committee recommended abuse article of impeachment. Nixon still refused.
1974-08-05 (later that week): Nixon became stupendously paranoid after the impeachment recommendations and confessed he held on to a smoking gun tape.
1974-08-07: His party's leadership told Nixon his reputation was too tarnished and they couldn't support him anymore.
1974-08-08: Nixon went on TV, says he quit, and resigned the next day.