Watergate

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^Archibald Cox

1912

~Was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and later as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
~Was trying to get Nixon impeached

^Sam Ervin

1954

~In 1954, then-Vice President Richard Nixon appointed Ervin to a committee formed to investigate whether McCarthy should be censured by the Senate. The Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices, which investigated Watergate, was popularly known as the "Ervin Committee".

*Watergate Hotel and Office Complex

1967

~The office building where the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of President Nixon.
~The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States.

^Spiro Agnew

1969

~Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to his resignation in 1973.
~He took over for Nixon until he was resigned

*26th Amendent

1971

~The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
~The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

^Committee to Reelect the President (CRP)

1972

~Officially abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration.
~Nixon's 1972 fundraising committee, despite their futile efforts to make us act like grown-ups and use its official acronym, CRP, or simply, “the Committee to Re-Elect.
~It got Nixon reelected.

^Robert Woodward

1972

~Woodward and Carl Bernstein were both assigned to report on the June 17, 1972, burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in a Washington, D.C., office building called Watergate

^Carl Bernstein

1972

~While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon.
~He found Nixon's secerets.

*June 17, 1972

Jun 17, 1972

Watergate burglars arrested, June 17, 1972. On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac.

^Alexander Butterfield

1973

~Alexander Porter Butterfield is a retired U.S. military officer, public servant, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.

^John Dean

1973

~John Wesley Dean III is an investment banker, author, columnist, lecturer, and attorney who served as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973.

*Saturday night Massacre

1973

~The Saturday Night Massacre was a series of events on the evening of Saturday, October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal in the United States.

^Gerald Ford

1974

~Ford became Vice President as the Watergate scandal was unfolding. On Thursday, August 1, 1974, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig contacted Ford to tell him that "smoking gun" evidence had been found. The evidence left little doubt that President Nixon had been a part of the Watergate cover-up.

*The Tapes

1974

~The secret of Nixon tapes' 18-minute gap revealed. Forty years ago, on Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from office following the Watergate scandal,

*Obstruction of Justice

1974

~Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is the crime of obstructing prosecutors or other officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice

*August 9, 1974

Aug 9, 1974

~Richard Nixon became the first United States president to resign from office

^Plumbers

1980

~people who plugged news leaks
~These people basically lied for nixon to keep all the bad news into the white house so they wouldnt find out.

*Political Suicide

1990

~Political suicide is a concept by which a politician or political party loses widespread support and confidence from the voting public by proposing actions that are seen as unfavourable or that might threaten the status quo.

^Richard Nixon

1994

~President during Watergate
~Nixon was blamed for crimes and tricks and he got impeached as a president.
~there were tapes of his conversations with people. and he did want to release them because of executive privilege, the president is immune from judicial orders
~he resigned as president in August 1974

*25th Amendment

1997

~In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
~Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.