Watergate
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- Watergate
- worst political scandal in US history
- Maurice Stans
- Nixon Finance Aid
- Deep Throat
- named after pornographic movie of era, Bob Woodward's secret Executive Branch source
- Bob Woodward
- investigative reporter for Washington Post helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation
- Donald Segretti
- political saboteur
- Deep Throat
- Mark Felt
- John Mitchell
- former attorney general
- Gerald Ford
- gave Nixon a full pardon for all offenses which he has committed or may have committed
- "reckless exploitation of bureaucracy"
- willingness of Nixon and his aides to use the FBI, IRS, and CIA in unlawful or unethical ways against their "enemies"
- political "tricks"
- stink bombs, fake letters, fake State department cables
- James St. Clair
- learned that one of 64 tapes Nixon had been compelled to surrender was a conversation with Haldeman in which Nixon sought to thwart FBI investigation, discussed Watergate breakin three days after it happened
- John Mitchell
- Nixon's former law partner, head of CRP
- Magruder and CRP reps
- destroyed incriminating documents and testified falsely to official investigators to cover up White House and CRP involvement in break-in
- Charles Colson
- special counsel to the president
- "I am not a crook."
- Nixon's line to a group of newspaper editors
- Maurice Stans
- served as commerce secretary in first Nixon cabinet and finance chairman for CRP
- Charles Colson
- indicted for role in Watergate cover up
- Ben Bradlee
- executive editor of Washington Post
- broke into office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, the psychiatrist of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, who had given copies of Pentagon Papers, secret involvement of US in Indochina, to the press
- What are the "plumbers" known for doing?
- Carl Bernstein
- a reporter for the Washington Post; Bob Woodward's co-worker
- "Smoking Gun"
- when Nixon released tapes that showed he ordered a cover-up and knew of the involvement of White House officials and the CRP
- Maurice Stans
- indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstruction, and justice
- Charles Colson
- known as "evil genius"
- Donald Segretti
- ran campaign of sabotage against Democrats for Nixon's reelection effort
- Nixon refused to release them, appealed order of judge, arguing that president was immune from judicial orders enforcing subpoenas and that under concept of executive privilege only he could decide which communications could be disclosed
- What happened when Prosecutor Cox first subpoenaed Nixon's tapes?
- James McCord
- security coordinator for CRP
- Richard M. Nixon
- resigned because of public and political pressures created by Watergate scandal
- He is facing certain impeachment and removal from office
- Why does Nixon resign?
- to uncover sources of leaked news (bombing of Cambodia and National Security). Nixon continued to tap on two men on the staff of Democratic presidential nomination
- Why did wire-tapping start?
- Howard Hunt
- issued threat to tell about the plumbers' activities unless he received hush money
- Richard M. Nixon
- 37th president of USA
- Jeb Magruder
- charged with perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice for role in Watergate cover-up
- contained 18-minute gap; someone deliberately destroyed evidence
- What was wrong with the tapes Nixon first turned in?
- Hugh Sloan
- quit job at CRP less than a month after burglary
- John Mitchell
- convicted on charges of conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice
- G.Gordon Liddy
- capitalized on his Watergate legend and took political views to airwaves with own conservative radio talk show
- Jeb Magruder
- Nixon's deputy campaign director
- Watergate Affair
- the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972 of the DNC headquarters in the Watergate apartment and office building complex in Washington DC
- G. Gordon Liddy
- former FBI agent who helped plan break-in
- Harry Rosenfeld
- metro editor of Washington Post
- Hugh Sloan
- former treasurer of Nixon's reelection campaign
- Egil Krogh, Jr.
- head of "plumbers"
- Nixon's appointments secretary and personal attorney
- Who hired Donald Segretti?
- H.R. Haldeman
- Nixon's chief of staff
- instructed him to stop an FBI inquiry into the source of money used by the wiretappers, using excuse that investigation would endanger CIA operations
- What did Nixon do when he learned from Haldeman of Michell 's possible link with the operation?
- John Mitchell
- approved proposal by Liddy that included Watergate break-in
- Hugh Sloan
- critical source to Woodward and Bernstein
- White house "plumbers"
- the secret team assembled to stop government leaks after defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers to the press
- Patrick Gray
- resigned as acting director of FBI after admitting that he destroyed documents given to him by Ehrlichman and Dean
- Howard Hunt
- member of White House "plumbers"
- Howard Hunt
- organizer of burglary