peachment resolutions were sent to the House Judiciary Committee.The White House revealed that there was an eighteen-minute, fifteen-second gap on a tape-recorded conversation between Nixon and H. R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate break-in. Leon Jaworski, the new special prosecutor, received the subpoenaed White House tapes from Judge Sirica. In February of 1974, Jaworski said that the White House had refused to give him additional tape recordings and papers he needed for his investigation.The federal grand jury hearing Watergate evidence indicted seven former presidential aides on March 1, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Colson. They were charged with lying to the FBI and the grand jury and making payoffs to the Watergate burglars to keep them from talking. The White House copied sown conversations from the president's tape recordings and released the transcripts because it was under pressure from the House Judiciary Committee and Jaworski. A White House lawyer claimed that Nixon would not turn over any more tapes to either the House Judiciary Committee or Jaworski.On May 9, the House Judiciary Committee began hearing evidence that would help decide whether or not to impeach the president. About two weeks after that Jaworski appealed to the supreme Court in order to get White House tapes of sixty-four conversations related to Watergate. After hearing arguments from both Jaworski and the White House, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tapes requested by Jaworski. On July 27, the House Judiciary Committee approved an article of impeachment that accused Nixon of obstructing justice in the Watergate case. Then the House Judiciary Committee approved a second article of impeachment accusing Nixon of abuse of power. The House Judiciary Committee approved a third article of impeachment accusing Nixon of defying subpoenas for the Watergate tapes. After the House Judiciary ...
