...What, exactly, did Nixon do? ...
I assume you are not joking and either weren’t around or forgot about Watergate.
He was not involved in the 3rd rate burglary of DNC as orchestrated by se ior staff members, but he controlled the massive and illegal cover up of it. His Secretary “accidentally” erased 18 minutes of incriminating evidence ( like Hillary deleted 30,000 emails, fired the Attorney Genreral who was investigating him and getting close, and committed other illegal acts and said, “ When the President does it, its not illegal.”
but he controlled the massive and illegal cover up of it.....So, he stood up for his employees and took the fall. 18 minutes of erased “incriminating evidence? If they were erased, what IS the incriminating evidence? The Attorney General is his to fire, hire (pending Congessional approval) or demote. What high crime/misdemeanor did he commit? He successfully prosecuted Alger Hiss, period.
Correction:
His secretary, Rose Mary Woods, admitted to mistakenly making a single erasure of 4½ to 5 minutes on the tape while making a phone call but she strongly denied making the entire 18½ minute erasure. Later she conceded that she may have erased between 5½ and 6 minutes of the tape, but no more than that.
Nixon's critics allege that the erased portion contained incriminating evidence pertaining to the Watergate cover-up but of course they had no way of knowing what was really said on the erased portion of the tape.
No one outside of the Nixon inner circle could ever know what actually was on the missing 18½ minutes or exactly how and by whom the eull erasure occurred.