Chapter 32 Section 2 Watergate: Nixon's Downfall

H.R. Haldeman

White House Chief of Staff was fired

John Ehrlichman

Chief Domestic Advisor to Nixon was fired

John Mitchell

Nixon's former attorney general and quit to run Nixon's reelection campaign

Committee to Reelect the President (CRP)

An organization formed to run President Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, which was linked to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that set off the Watergate scandal

Watergate

The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.

John Sirica

The Watergate trial's presiding judge who believed that the men had not acted alone

Saturday Night Massacre

dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus during the Watergate scandal 1973

Impeachment

An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story and brought down President Nixon.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,

George S. McGovern

Nixon was reelected by a landslide over liberal Democrat

James McCord

few days before the burglars were scheduled to be sentenced he sent a letter to Sirica, in which he indicated that he had lied under oath

John Dean

was white house counsel who was dismissed he provided startling answers

Richard Kleindienst

was Attorney General who was fired and replaced John Mitchell following Mitchell's resignation

Elliot Richardson

Attorney General that resigned instead of firing Cox and was authorized by Nixon to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Watergate

Samuel James Ervin

was chair of A special committee and senator of north Carolina and began to call administration officials to give testimony

Alexander Butterfield

White House aid that revealed existence of tapes

Robert Bork

Solicitor General who fired Cox

Archibald Cox

the special prosecutor whom Elliot Richardson had appointed to investigate the case, took the president to court in October 1973 to obtain the tapes.

House Judiciary Committee

began examining the possibility of an impeachment hearing

Spiro Agnew

Nixon's vice-president resigned after it was

revealed that he had accepted bribes from Maryland engineering firms, as governor of Maryland, and during his term as vice president

Gerald R. Ford

Nixon's vice president after Agnew resigned, he became the only president never to be elected. Taking office after Nixon resigned, he pardoned Nixon for all federal crimes

Rose Mary Woods

President Nixon's secretary, accidentally erased part of a conversation between H. R. Haldeman and Nixon