Richard Nixon was the only U.S. President to resign in disgrace after trying to cover up his party's involvement in the Watergate scandal. Secret tapes of his conversations and phone calls provided important evidence in the case, though Nixon refused to hand them over. He eventually resigned to avoid impeachment over the scandal.

1. • only President to resign in disgrace
• tried to cover up his party’s involvement in it
• made tapes of all his conversations and telephone calls
• became important evidence in the case
• refused to give them up
• Engaged in kitchen debates with Khrushchev at the US exhibition in Moscow
• pioneered the opening of American relations with China
• 1971- created wage price freeze to combat inflation, removed US from gold
standard
• Most controls were gone by end of ‘73
• Resigned instead of being impeached