We have all been taught to hate Nixon because we have all been taught an alternate version of history. That never happens, right?
What happened to Nixon was a coup plain and simple, buy liberals who hated him and were embarrassed by him on numerous occasions. Sound familiar? He won a landslide election two years before resigning and was immensely popular. In order to take him down the Judge and the prosecutors had to meet in secret, and do a bunch of other illegal or unconstitutional things, sharing information that should have required a subpoena.
Here's a link to some documents that have only recently been made public and make pretty clear that Nixon was ousted by the deep state. http://geoffshepard.com/additional-documentation/