Watergate was one of the biggest political scandals and constitutionanal crisis in America. It led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. It involved five men who broke into the head office of democratic national committee. who were all linked to Nixons administration. It affected the presidency because a network of political spying and attemps to a cover up Journalists linked the five men who broke in the democratic national committee to Nixons campaign group to re-elect the president. The tapes were made public by the supreme court.