Yes he did. There were also half as many US casualties under Nixon than LBJ in basically the same 5 year span of their presidencies. Also while watergate was bad, the cover up was what got him on the road to impeachment. It was basically the missing 15 minutes of recordings that were obviously deleted to cover up something, but forget about 26 IRS hard drives crashing and were destroyed without following the government guildlines on archiving because there's not a "smidgeon" of wrong doing under Obama's administration.