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The Trial
The Fall of a President
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the process of accusing a public official of wrongdoing.
What is Impeachment
100
White House chief of staff
What is H. R. Haldeman
100
Nixon’s campaign team sought advantages by any means possible, including an attempt to steal information from the DNC headquarters.
What is the end of the 1972 reelection campaign
100
the Senate began its own investigation of Watergate.
What is May 1973
100
told a television audience that he was releasing 1,254 pages of edit-ed transcripts of White House conversations about Watergate.
What is President Nixon
200
is a general term used to describe a complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974. The word specifically refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C
What is Watergate
200
chief domestic adviser
What is John Ehrlichman
200
a guard at the Watergate complex in Washington, D. C., caught five men breaking into the campaign headquarters of the DNC. The burglars planned to photograph documents outlining Democratic Party strategy and to place wiretaps, or “bugs,”on the office telephones. The press soon discovered that the group’s leader, James Mc Cord, was a former CIA agent. He was also a security coordinator for a group known as the Committee to Reelect the President (CRP). John Mitchell, who had resigned as attorney general to run Nixon’s reelection campaign, was the CRP’s director.
What is at 2: 30 A. M., June 17, 1972
200
began to call administration officials to give testimony
What is Senator Samuel James Ervin of North Carolina
200
the high court ruled unanimously that the president must surrender the tapes.
What is July 24, 1974
300
an organization formed to run President Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign, which was linked to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that set off the Watergate scandal
What is Committee to Reelect the President
300
Nixon’s former attorney general
What is John Mitchell
300
kept on the story(Watergate). In a series of articles, the reporters uncovered information that linked numerous members of the administration to the burglary.
What is Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
300
delivered the first bomb. In late June, during more than 30 hours of testimony, Dean provided a startling answer to Senator Howard Baker’s repeated question, “What did the president know and when did he know it?”The former White House counsel declared that President Nixon had been deeply involved in the cover-up. Dean referred to one meeting in which he and the president, along with several advisers, discussed strategies for continuing the deceit.
What is John Dean
300
determined that there was enough evidence to impeach Richard Nixon.
What is the House Judiciary Committee
400
a name given to the resignation of the U.S. attorney general and the firing of his deputy in October 1973, after they refused to carry out President Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate affair.
What is Saturday Night Massacre
400
Presidential counsel
What is John Dean III
400
The trial’s presiding judge. Made clear his belief that the men had not acted alone.
What is John Sirica
400
Butterfield stunned the committee when he revealed that Nixon had taped virtually all of his presidential conversations. Butterfield later claimed that the taping system was installed “to help Nixon write his memoirs.” However, for the Senate committee, the tapes were the key to revealing what Nixon knew and when he knew it.
What is presidential aide Alexander Butterfield
400
Nixon released the tapes.
What is August 5
500
the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., argued that by the time Richard Nixon became president, the executive branch had taken on an air of imperial, or supreme, authority.
What is The Imperial Presidency
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President Nixon settled into this imperial role with ease. Nixon believed, as he told a reporter in 1980. Nixon expanded the power of the presidency with little thought to constitutional checks, as when he impounded funds for federal programs that he opposed, or when he ordered troops to invade Cambodia without congressional approval.
What is Nixon
500
Nixon dismissed White House counsel John Dean and announced the resignations of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who had recently replaced John Mitchell following Mitchell’s resignation. The president then went on television and denied any attempt at a cover-up.
What is President Nixon moved quickly to stem the growing concern.
500
had appointed to investigate the case, took the president to court in October 1973 to obtain the tapes.
What is Elliot Richardson
500
before the full House vote on the articles of impeachment began, President Nixon announced his resignation from office.
What is August 8, 1974
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