The Pros and Cons of Indicting a Former President

In 1974, Nixon was named secretly by a grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate break in. There was a sense that now he was out of office, he would surely be indicted along with all the rest of them. The Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office made it clear it believed not only could Nixon be indicted, but sort of that he needed to be,.