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New Watergate book says John Dean ordered break-in New Watergate book says John Dean ordered break-in. WASHINGTON A new book on the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon accuses then-White House counsel John Dean of ordering the infamous Watergate break-in in 1972, a charge Dean strongly rejected. The biography is being released this week about Nixon's attorney general, a central Watergate figure.
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WATERGATE, THEN AND NOW; Who Was Who in the Cover-Up and Uncovering of Watergate Mr. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury in the Watergate cover-up and conspiracy in the 1971 raid on the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Mr. Ellsberg, a Pentagon researcher, has said he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press.
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Extract 1: The Great Cover-Up Week by week, the Watergate disclosures led nearer to Nixon, engulfing his closest associates. On the first day in July, 1972, John N. Mitchell, who as attorney general had been the chief symbol of law and order in Nixon’s administration, resigned as chairman of the re-election committee because of the scandal.
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What is the watergate scandal? what happened? The Watergate is a hotel in Washington DC. In the election for president it also served as office space for the Democratic party. The scandel involved the arrest of 5 men who were caught breaking into the hotel on June 17, 1972.n June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Watergate Complex in D.C. When this crime was investigated, it was found that Nixon had prior knowledge of this scandal, and he had tape recordings to prove it.
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The long shadow of the ânational nightmareâ Lehrer on Watergate: It was a crime of corruption. John Dean on the days following the Watergate break-in. A burglary at a Washington office complex called the Watergate in June 1972 grew into a wide-ranging political scandal that culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon two years later.
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Fact or Fiction: Was Hillary Clinton fired from Watergate investigation? Jerry Zeifman said he supervised Hillary Rodham Clinton as she worked on the team that worked on the Watergate impeachment inquiry, and that during the investigation Hillary Clinton had “…engaged in a variety of self-serving, unethical practices in violation of House rules.”
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What was Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate cover-up? When the independent counsel investigating Watergate refused to relent in his demands for the tapes, Nixon had the Department of Justice replace him. Only after the Supreme Court intervened to order the tapes released did Nixon comply. And even then, there was what has now become famous as the 18-1/2 minute gap. The tapes proved conclusively Nixon’s knowledge of and involvement in the cover-up and, with the Senate preparing to impeach him, he resigned just three days after the tapes were released.
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What was Watergate? Here are 14 facts that explain everything FORTY YEARS AGO last Sunday, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington DC in a botched operation that would spark a chain of events that two years later would see Richard Nixon resign as the 37th president of the United States.
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What was Watergate? Here are 14 facts that explain everything 3. The Watergate break-in As part of these illegal activities, in the early hours of 17 June 1972, five men attempted to break-in to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex, about a mile from the White House.
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- The origins of the Watergate break-in lay in the hostile politics of the 1960s. By 1972, when Republican President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was running for reelection, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War (1955-1975) and deeply divided internally.n the face of certain impeachment by the Senate, the president resigned on August 8. Six weeks after the new president Gerald Ford (1913-2006) was sworn in, he pardoned Nixon for any crimes he had committed while in office.
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Did Nixon really order the Watergate break-in? “Though hardly definitive, the evidence suggesting Nixon ordered the break-in is substantial.”. Me, I think Tony, Carmela, and A.J. got plugged in the diner while Meadow Soprano escaped with her life. In a similar vein, I’ve also always assumed Nixon ordered the break-in. In both instances, the story wouldn’t make much sense otherwise. And in Nixon’s case, we’ve been left with a lot more than a few ambiguous frames of film to parse.
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Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon It was here that the Watergate Burglars broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee offices on June 17, 1972. If it had not been for the alert actions of Frank Wills, a security guard, the scandal may never have erupted.
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Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. After the five burglars were caught and the conspiracy was discovered, Watergate was investigated by the United States Congress. Meanwhile, N
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Did Nixon Approve the Watergate Break-In? He also writes, I know nothing to indicate that. Nixon was aware in advance of the plan to break into the Democratic headquarters.. Documents and tapes available at the National Archives also contradict Mr. Magruder's reported statements.
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The Nixon Administration and Watergate Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox and the Senate Watergate Committee demand that President Nixon hand over a selection of presidential documents and the secret White House tapes (see July 13-16, 1973). Nixon refuses to hand over any of the requested material.
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APUSH Nixon-Reagan Watergate. June 17, 1972 - five men arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee's executive quarters in the Watergate Hotel. Two White House aides were indicted; they quit, Senate hearing began in May, 1973, Nixon admitted to complicity in the burglary.
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- Notwithstanding Nixon’s initial reaction to the news of the break-in, less than a week later he suddenly learned more—and this gave him much. to ponder. On June 23, Nixon’s chief of staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman, came into the.
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- Watergate: The Break-In. The origins of the Watergate break-in lay in the hostile politics of the 1960s. By 1972, when Republican President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was running for reelection, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War (1955-1975) and deeply divided internally.
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Richard Nixon Deep Throat was the informant who gave Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein information that helped to expose the Nixon administration's role in the Watergate Scandal. For over 30 years, Deep Throat 's identity remained a mystery.
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Watergate: Where Are They Now? James McCord. A former CIA officer, McCord was one of the five burglars arrested at the Watergate complex on June 15, 1972. He was convicted on eight counts of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping, spending two months in prison. In March 1973 McCord wrote a letter implicating White House officials in the cover-up. He later published a book about his role in the scandal.
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution The break-in of the Watergate hotel, in the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington DC where 5 men were caught bugging and stealing political documents in 1972. President Richard Nixon was accused of ordering his men to do it.
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- Chesterfield Smith-Chesterfield Smith was president of the American Bar Association in 1973-1974, during the Watergate scandal. Although he had supported Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns, Smith became an outspoken critic of Nixon after the Saturday Night Massacre. On the Sunday following the Saturday Night Massacre, Smith drafted a statement and said, No man is above the law..
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Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement.
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TIMELINE Post Story. July 27 - Thirty years after the Senate select committee hearings on Watergate riveted the nation and doomed the Nixon presidency, a key figure in the scandal says he has a fresh and explosive revelation: Richard M. Nixon personally ordered the burglary of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex.
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- Effects of Watergate It turned out that the arrest of five men on 17 June 1972 who were trying to install electronic listening devices in the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC was just one of several surreptitious activities sponsored by the Nixon Administration.he resulting cover-up  became known as 'Watergate'.    The scandal came in the political context of the ongoing Vietnam  War, which had since Lyndon Johnson's presidency grown increasingly  unpopular with the American public.