Why is important that president nixon would not hang over the tapes?

Because if the tape goes public, Nixon will lose the support of the voters.

Explanation:

The tape that is mentioned above is the recording tape that contain a conversation between President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials. The tape came out during the Watergate scandal after Nixon was caught as the mastermind that formulate a plan to steal something from democrat's party safe box.

The tape contained a lot of racist remarks from Nixon toward another ethnicity such as Jewish and Indian people. It also contain various shady conversations about his plan to blackmail another government officials.

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