Chapter 33 "The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon"

Platform

Primary Election

Third Party

Precedent

Incursion

Embargo

Conspiracy

Espionage

Sabotage

Covert

Impeachment

Indictment

Wiretap

Bugging

Cover-up

Prejury

Clandestine

Détente

Supeona

Due Process

Boycott

De-escalation

Alienation

Executive Clemency

Censorship

Implicate

Pardon

Eugene McCarthy

Anti-war candidate for the Democrats in the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Senator from Minnesota.

Robert Kennedy

Anti-war candidate for the Democrats in the 1968 Presidential Campaign was assassinated.

Sirhan-Sirhan

The guy who killed Robert Kennedy.

Edmund Muskie

Hubert Humphrey’s running mate in the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Democrat.

Ronald Reagan

Spirow Agnew

Nixon’s running mate in the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Campaigns, Nixon’s Vice President. Republican.

George Wallace

Former Governor of Alabama. Ran for President for the American Independent Party.

Earl Warren

H.R. Haldeman

Henry Kissinger

John Ehrlichman

Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin

Michael Collins

Leonid Brezhnev

Warren Burger

George McGovern

Thomas Eagleton

Sergeant Shriver

John Mitchell

Lawrence O’Brien

Sam Ervin

Elliot Richardson

Archibald Cox

Gerald Ford

Leon Jaworski

Special Prosecutor

L. Patrick Gray

John Dean

John Sirica

Howard Hunt

Former CIA agent, one of the burglars during Watergate.

G. Gordon Liddy

Former FBI agent, one of the burglars during Watergate.

James McCord

Lead Burglar for Watergate.

Alexander Butterfield

Richard Nixon

Walter Cronkit

Hubert Humphrey

Bob Woodward

Carl Bernstein

Daniel Ellsberg

Silent Majority

American Independent Party

Gideon vs. Wainwright

Miranda vs. Arizona

Supreme Court Ruling that states you must inform the accused of their rights at the time of arrest or what they say can’t be used against them in court.

Apollo 11

Eagle

China Visit

SALT

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

ABM

Wage-Price Freeze

Wages and prices can’t go up or down for 90 days.

Pentagon Papers

The truth of what was actually going on in Vietnam. Stolen by Daniel Ellsberg.

Plumbers

Stop leaks of information from White House to the Press.

Watergate

Executive Branch

25th Amendment

Order of Presidential Succession- changed the way the President was replaced in he died or got sick.

Checkers Speech

AMA

American Medical Association (Doctors)

Roe vs. Wade

Supreme Court Ruling that said Texas abortion law is unconstitutional.

Bussing

Forced integration of schools.

Democratic National Convention (1968)

CREEP

Committee to Re-Elect the President

Deep Throat

Smoking Gun

Nixon vs. The United States of America

Supreme Court Rules 8-0 Nixon must turn over tapes to Special Prosecutor Jaworski.

House Judiciary Committee

Unindicted Co-conspirator

Saturday Night Massacre

Nixon tells Richardson to fire Cox. He says no and resigns. Nixon tells Ruckelshaus to fire Cox he says no and is fired. Nixon tells Berk to fire Cox. He does.

Impeachment Process

Special Prosecutor

Watergate Tapes

Obstruction of Justice

Edited Transcripts

Attorney General