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  Watergate scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "Watergate" refers to a series of events, spanning from 1972 to 1974, that began with U.S. President Nixon's administration's abuse of power toward the goal of undermining the Democratic Party and the opposition to the Vietnam War.
On March 1, 1974, former aides of the president, known as the Watergate Seven — Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson — were indicted for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
Watergate led to a new era in which the mass media became far more aggressive in reporting on the activities of politicians.
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 8 Papers on Watergate
Now Watergate is a term that means: political burglary, bribery, extortion, wiretapping, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, tax fraud, illegal use of the C.I.A., illegal use of the F.B.I., illegal campaign contributions, use of public money for private purposes and abuse of power.
The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by the President and his staff, who were found to spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds.
Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of illegal activities in the Nixon administration.
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 Watergate scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Watergate scandal (or just "Watergate") was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s which eventually led to the resignation President Richard Nixon.
On March 1 1974 the "Watergate Seven" former aides of president — Haldeman Ehrlichman Mitchell Colson Gordon Strachan Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson — been indicted for conspiring to hinder the investigation.
Watergate led to a new era in the mass media became far more aggressive in reporting the activities of politicians.
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 The Watergate Scandal, an overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Watergate scandal (1972-1974) (or just "Watergate") was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
On March 1, 1974, the Watergate Seven, former aides of the president—Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson—were indicted for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
As for the Watergate Seven, Colson pleaded guilty to charges concerning the Ellsberg case; in exchange, the indictment against him for covering up the activities of CRP was dropped, as it was against Strachan.
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 American Experience | The Presidents | Richard M. Nixon | PBS
Now that most of the major witnesses in the Watergate phase of the Senate committee heatings on campaign practices have been heard, the time has come for me to speak out about the charges made and to provide a perspective on the issue for the American people.
To most of us, Watergate has come to mean not just a burglary and bugging of party headquarters but a whole series of acts that either represent or appear to represent an abuse of trust.
As we look at Watergate in a longer perspective, we can see that its abuses resulted from the assumption by those involved that their cause placed them beyond the reach of those rules that apply to other persons and that hold a free society together.
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 Watergate Chronology 1973
The trial of the Watergate Seven (Barker, Gonzalez, Hunt, Liddy, Martinez, McCord and Sturgis) begins in Washington.
are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident.
Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
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 Watergate scandal - dKosopedia
The Watergate scandal (1972–1974) (or just "Watergate") was amassive political scandal and constitutional crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
On March 1, 1974, former aides of the president, known as the Watergate Seven — Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson — were indicted for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
Watergate led to a new era in which the mass media for a time became more aggressive in reporting on the activities of politicians.
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 Watergate - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Watergate
When his complicity in the Watergate cover-up was revealed, Nixon decided to resign rather than face impeachment.
Investigations revealed that the White House was implicated in the break-in, and that there was a ‘slush fund’ used to finance unethical activities, including using the CIA and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for political ends, setting up paramilitary operations against opponents, altering and destroying evidence, and bribing defendants to lie or remain silent.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Senator Sam Ervin Explains the Meaning and Consequences of Watergate (1974)
On the contrary, Watergate was perpetrated upon America by White House and political aides, whom President Nixon himself had entrusted with the management of his campaign for reelection to the Presidency, a campaign which was divorced to a marked degree from the campaigns of other Republicans who sought election to public office in 1972.
Watergate was without precedent in the political annals of America in respect to the scope and intensity of its unethical and illegal actions.
They gave assurances to some of the original seven defendants that they would receive Presidential clemency after serving short portions of their sentences if they refrained from divulging the identities and activities of the officers and employees of the Nixon reelection committees and the White House aides who had participated in the Watergate affair.
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 Watergate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Even though their relationship to the election committee is established, none of the seven men connects the committee or the White House to the break-in.
March 1: Seven former White House staff members, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and former Attorney General John Mitchell, are indicted for conspiring to obstruct the investigation of the Watergate break-in.
The Watergate charges against Charles Colson are dropped after he pleads guilty to crimes connected with the Ellsberg-psychiatrist break-in.
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 Watergate
The word, “Watergate”, refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. In addition to the hotel, the Watergate complex houses many business offices.
Watergate scandal unfolded, the Nixon administration was quick to mitigate the
The controversy surrounding the conspiracy at Watergate is
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 scott lenderman's homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Watergate was a troublesome time both for a Nation and Richard Nixon.
Of these seven, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt were the highest officials of the seven.
Watergate was an event that would prove to haunt a nation for many years to come.
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"Watergate" is a general term used to describea complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974.
Watergate was unravelledby the Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Watergate provides useful material for analysing the operation of the President,Congress or Supreme Court.
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 Ehrlichman, John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
known as the watergate seven — haldeman, ehrlichman, mitchell, colson,...
he was convicted in the watergate coverup along with hr haldeman, the white house...
underlying watergate was the arrogance of power and the desire to hang on to it at...
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 ARPA: Deep Throat comes out—Revisiting Watergate
Most spectacularly on 25 June, Dean made a seven hour opening statement to the Ervin Committee, in which he detailed conversations with Nixon about finding hush money for the defendants and that in March he had told Nixon Watergate was a cancer on the presidency.
Moreover Felt, as the deputy head of the FBI, and in charge of the agency’s Watergate investigation, was at least as much as any other individual in a position to know the details of the crime and the cover-up, and so was as close to an authoritative source as one could be.
Watergate also had a contemporary resonance in that two of the most powerful figures in the Bush White House, Cheney and Rumsfeld, had been junior figures in the Nixon White House.
www.australianreview.net /digest/2005/07/tiffen.html   (4701 words)

  
 Lobster: The Journal of Parapolitics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Who is he, other than a G-man? Well, he's the fellow who was outraged by the Watergate break-in, which (we're told) was about Nixon's evil spooks breaking into, and bugging, the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate.
Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. From 'Political ' to 'Human: the Lessons of Watergate and Vietnam The history of the last century suggests that, to challenge these stultifying forces of expansion and repression, traditional processes must themselves be rejuvenated by fresh inputs of human energy.
Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. After Watergate: the Chilean-Cuban Exile Alliance There is no doubt that the decline and fall of Richard Nixon in 1973-4, along with the flood of revelations which washed him out of office, meant-at least in the short run-a weakening of U.S. support for reaction overseas.
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 hist111/casestudies.html
On June 25 when testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, Dean claimed that Nixon was involved in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary within days in June 1972.
On October 19, Nixon offered a compromise to the Senate Watergate Committee, proposing that the Democratic Senator from Mississippi, John Stennis, be permitted to listen to the tapes and prepare summaries for Special Prosecutor Cox.
On November 21, a gap of 18 and a half minutes was discovered on the tape of the conversation between Nixon and Haldeman on June 20, 1972.
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 in history - August 3rd to August 9th - Learn English Magazine - British Council
June 17, 1972: five men were arrested by the police inside the Watergate premises of the Democratic Party National Committee.
November 26: The seven existing Watergate tapes and other material were handed over by President Nixon to Judge Sirica.
The report, which was unanimous, described Watergate as "one of America's most tragic happenings" which had been followed by a "sordid aftermath...
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 Untitled Document
Judge John J. Sirica, presiding judge at the trial of the "Watergate seven," put further pressure on the White House by his tough questioning of witnesses and his obvious suspicion of perjury.
While Watergate was certainly not the first White House scandal, most previous scandals had involved financial corruption or conflicts of interest rather than the direct obstruction of justice or subversion of constitutional processes.
Watergate is not the story of the Nixon Presidency -- even in the so-called Watergate period.
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 NIE Online Lesson -- 30 Years After Watergate
The scandal began with an early morning break-in of the Democratic National Committee offices by CIA operatives on June 17, 1972.
On the 25th anniversary of Watergate, the Washington Post published a special online "package" commemorating the event (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein won the Washington Post the Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting).
Watergate 25 is still available online, and is still an excellent overview of the events and people surrounding the scandal, this time from the perspective of investigative journalism.
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 Amazon.com: 1972¿1974 Watergate Files: From the Break-in to the Impeachment and Resignation of President Richard M. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Here is the story of the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, including unique reproductions of historic government documents, as compiled by the Gerald R. Ford Library.
After June 17, 1972, the word "Watergate" could no longer be just the name of an office and hotel complex in Washington, D.C. On that date it became a byword for political corruption.
When Judge John Sirica gaveled the trial of the Watergate seven to order on January 8, 1973, federal investigators had already discovered a covert slush fund used to underwrite nefarious activities against Democrats.
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 Watergate -Overview (Part 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
June 17th, 1972: Five men are arrested at the Watergate complex after burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
The "Watergate Seven" were sentenced by Judge John Sirica.
The tapes show that he knew of the involvement of White House officials and the Campaign for the Re-election of the President.
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 Watergate Investigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Kenneth Parkinson - counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President; faced 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
The Watergate scandal (1972-1974) (or just "Watergate") was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
The articles says that the Watergate scandal was a major factor in the passage of the Freedom of Information Act.
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 cwwatergate
Watergate and the Fall of Richard Nixon: An Outline
The Break-in at Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate.
The Watergate Seven: From Guatemala to the Bay of Pigs to Watergate
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 John J. Sirica
Despite repeated attempts by Judge Sirica to find out if anyone else besides the seven defendants was involved in the conspiracy, testimony in the trial was largely confined by the prosecution to proving its case against Liddy and McCord, with occasional mention made of the five who had pleaded guilty.
On Sept. 15, the federal indictment against the seven original defendants was returned.
On Oct. 10, The Post reported that the FBI had concluded that the Watergate bugging was just one incident in a campaign of political sabotage directed by the White House and the Nixon committee.
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 1974 in politics -
January 2 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
February 28 - After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/1974_in_politics   (267 words)

  
 Headlines
- Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
- Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
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 Free Essays on Watergate: Was The Nixon White House Involved?
Free Essays on Watergate: Was The Nixon White House Involved?
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