https://compactmag.com/article/how-the-deep-state-took-down-nixon

Although these authors disagree about many details, they agree that Nixon was removed from office not because he endangered the constitutional order, but because his bureaucratic and political enemies plotted successfully against him. And while scholars shy away from endorsing some of the more dramatic claims that have been made over the years, the best (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.1992.9962930?journalCode=upcp20) of them understand Watergate not in terms of the conventional narrative, but as an institutional (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1992/05/deep-throat-an-institutional-analysis/304084/) “conflict” (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/abs/deep-throat-watergate-and-the-bureaucratic-politics-of-the-fbi/55EE2B407611C01BE4FC5AFD142CFD97) in which Nixon was the most important casualty. Nixon had to go—not because of a bungled break-in, but because he challenged the national-security state.