Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, which are bacteria normally found in soil and manure. They enter the body through a wound in the skin, such as a scratch, a puncture from a rose thorn while gardening, or an animal bite.
Comments. When Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency of the United States over Watergate in 1974 he was widely reviled as the worst ever occupant of the White House. But perceptions of his record have been changing. hundred years after his birth, it is time to reassess the legacy of the disgraced US president Richard Nixon. A divisive personality: since Watergate, many Americans regard Richard Milhous Nixon as their worst president, yet there is still a substantial fan club Photo: AP. By Jonathan Aitken. 7:44PM GMT 04 Jan 2013.
The short answer is that if he had not resigned, it is very likely that Nixon would have been impeached by the House of Representatives and then removed from office after a trial by the U.S. Senate. The Watergate scandal (and the associated drip-drip revelations of dirty tricks) had been growing for two years. At the end of July of 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved several articles of impeachment to go to the floor of the House, demonstrating that the momentum for impeachment was already there.