Apush watergate terms

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Richard Nixon (1)

• very skeptical/paranoid

• secretly taped conversations in the oval office

• resigned with “the nation Neds a full time congress and full time president

Democratic National Committee

• headquarters where the break in happened

• mostly ex-CIA agents

Hunt and Liddy

• two guys who were a part of the committee to reelect the president

• worked with each other to spy on enemies

• hired ex-cia officer to break into Ellsberg’s psychiatrists office

• both pleaded not guilty and were convicted as guilty anyway

Committee to Reelect the President (1)

• wanted to keep Nixon in office

• ILLEGAL ILLEGAL ILLEGAL activities

George McGovern

• ran against Nixon for pres

• incredibly behind - lost by a landslide

Alfred Baldwin

• ex-FBI who was across the street of watergate

• tasked with watching Watergate complex from the outside and listening to convos

• testified against hunt and liddy

Frank Wills

• security guard who noticed the door taped open in Watergate

Woodward and Bernstein

• two reporters who reported on the case

• very low-ranking publicists

• first people to link the break in to the Committee to reelect the president

James McCord

• employee to Committee to reelect president

• refused to plead guilty

• taped the door open to Watergate

Charles Colson

• connected to the burglary

• part of Nixons inner circle

Haldeman and Ehrlichmen (1)

• nicknamed “the Berlin Wall” for protecting the president

• faithfully carried out Nixons orders

• began to face backlash when the scandal grew bigger

• eventually asked to resign

Deep Throat

• secret informant to the FBI

1972 Election

• reelection campaign and FBI investigation simultaneously

• Nixon won by the largest landslide in history (49 states)

John Sirica

• judge for the case

• urged others to look deeper into the Watergate incident

• reads letter that hints at greater conspiracy

John Dean (1)

• tasked with controlling the flow of information relating to watergate

• approaches investigators with information as the scandal spirals

• asked to resign by Nixon

• testified for the scandal - “dirty tricks campaign”

Archibald Cox

• special prosecutor that ordered the investigation on Nixon

• Subpoena tapes that Nixon had (but waited for a week)

Alexander Butterfield

• deputy assistant to Nixon

• asked about listening devices in the Oval Office while testifying in court, confirms it

Elliot Richardson

• refused to leak White House tapes

• resigned with a bunch of other people - “Saturday Massacre”

Supreme Court

• ordered nixon to release the White House tapes because he wasn’t doing that

• the rosemary stretch - a chunk of tapes that was erased

House judiciary Committee

• passes article of impeachment for obstruction of justice to nixon

• even members of his own party were ready to remove him

• IMPEACHMENT DOES NOT MEAN REMOVAL - only starts the court process

Richard Nixon (2)

• had wanted to win by the greatest margin ever recording in history

• worried his enemies/press would undermine is international agenda (Vietnam war)

• Orchestrated the COVERUP, not the actual burglary

• didn’t want to come clean about the scandal bc then he would have to admit he ordered the breaking on Ellsberg psychiatry office

Larry O’Brien

• Democratic National Committee chairman

• threat to presidency bc he was super vocal (even tho nixon already had a lead in the election)

Daniel Ellsberg

• Leaked the pentagon papers

• former military analyst

• anti-war activist

Plumbers

• Nixon created this group to stop information leaks

• first on their “hit list” was Ellsberg - wanted his psychiatrist papers + broke into the office

Haldeman and Ehrlichmen (2)

• Haldeman was chief of staff

• his tape with nixon was erased on purpose - deleted like 9 times

• suspected that Mark Felt was leaking info to the Washington post, but couldn't act on it

Mark Felt

• he was “deep throat” information guy

• suspected of leaking information

• if Nixon went public with the scandal, felt could reveal tons of info since he was FBI

Bob Woodward

• young journalist

• met with secret source “deep throat” for confidential information and protected his identity

Committee to reelect the president (2)

• hired FBI agents to gather intelligence of Nixon’s enemies

• paid for the burglars and later for their silence directly from Nixon’s campaign funds

• broke into the Watergate complex ASSUMING that Nixon would have wanted this (he was paranoid af)

John Dean (2)

• told nixon that the cycle of hush money would never end

• “a cancer on the presidency”

• ousted by Nixon, who hoped to salvage his presidency by cutting all ties to Watergate

Gerald Ford

• president after Nixon

• pardoned nixon one month after he left office

Leonard Garment

• one advisors who knew nixon had a meeting with Dean

• asked how much money would take to pay off burglars (like a million)

Barry Goldwater

• delivered the news that Nixon did not have the votes to avoid conviction

Alexander Haig

• chief of staff

• military background

Tonkin Golf resolution

• the War Powers Act repealed this

• it had given him “blank check” of power before

Spiro Agnew

• VP of nixon

• resigned an month before nixon did

• very republican - claimed that anti-war/liberals were disloyal

• political corruption and rumors he accepted bribes

25th Amendment

• Nixon used the amendment to fill the empty VP position

• new person must be approved by both houses of congress