Watergate was a 3rd rate, John Dean burglary operation to steal the DNC blackbook of prostitutes that included his future wife.
Nixon never was involved in the break-in - only the cover-up.
Nixon would have gotten away clean if he had destroyed the tapes. I never understood why he didn’t
Dean’s to-be wife was still running tricks at Secret Service and State Department parties long after he’d begun ‘dating her’.