“Nixon stopped printing of the $500 and $1000 notes by an executive order...”
Are you serious? Was that at the same time we were taken off the gold standard?
Watergate was the least of RMN’s offenses.
This source says Nixon did not stop the printing; he ordered them withdrawn from circulation.
President Nixon issued an executive order July 14, 1969, initiating withdrawal from circulation through the Federal Reserve of high-denomination notes above $100.