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| 9610678390 | Richard M. Nixon | Republican candidate in the election of 1968 | 0 | |
| 9610678391 | Henry Kissinger | Nixon's national security adviser/secretary of state | 1 | |
| 9610678392 | Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education | Supreme Court case ordering a quick end to segregation | 2 | |
| 9610678393 | Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education | Supreme Court case requiring school systems to bus students out of their neighborhoods if necessary to achieve integration | 3 | |
| 9610678394 | Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | Supreme Court case restricting the use of college-admissions quota to achieve racial balance | 4 | |
| 9610678395 | stagflation | simultaneous recession and inflation | 5 | |
| 9610678396 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | group of Middle Eastern countries that refused to sell oil to nations supporting Israel | 6 | |
| 9610678397 | détente | restrained competition between the US and the USSR | 7 | |
| 9610678398 | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | meetings that limited the number of nuclear weapons the US and the USSR could possess | 8 | |
| 9610678399 | shuttle diplomacy | Kissinger's flights to the Middle East | 9 | |
| 9610678400 | George Wallace | Independent candidate in the election of 1972 | 10 | |
| 9610678401 | George McGovern | Democratic candidate in the election of 1972 | 11 | |
| 9610678402 | Watergate | political scandal resulting in Nixon's resignation | 12 | |
| 9610678403 | Committee to Re-Elect the President | group that used illegal methods to re-elect Richard Nixon | 13 | |
| 9610678404 | Gerald Ford | Nixon's appointed vice president | 14 | |
| 9610678405 | War Powers Act of 1973 | act limiting the president's power to deploy troops abroad | 15 | |
| 9610678406 | War Powers Act | President must report to Congress within 2 days of putting troops in danger in a foreign country, and there would be a 60-90 day limit for overseas troop presence | 16 | |
| 9610678407 | North Vietnam, Cambodia | What 2 countries is the War Powers Act in response to | 17 | |
| 9610678408 | The Plumbers | a plug leaks of confidential information and sent to steal files of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg who had leaked the Pentagon Papers concerning the Vietnam War | 18 | |
| 9610678409 | CREEP | employed the plumbers; the committee that was trying to help Nixon get re-elected, often by illegal means like raising money illicitly, espionage, sabotage, and faking documents | 19 | |
| 9610678410 | HR Haldeman | trusted aide/Chief of Staff; ordered to tell the CIA to stop the FBI from investigating the money trail for burglary -Missing 18.5 minutes of the Watergate tapes were of him and the President in the Oval Office | 20 | |
| 9610678411 | John Ehrlichman | Chief Domestic Advisor; created the Plumbers and was, with Haldeman, the "Berlin Wall" in the White House = loyal aides to Nixon | 21 | |
| 9610678412 | John Dean | White House counsel; helped in the cover up of evidence in the Watergate scandal by destroying Howard Hunt's safe contents; fired by Nixon after cooperating with Senate investigators and not completing his report of Watergate--used as scapegoat | 22 | |
| 9610678413 | John Sirica | Ordered Nixon to turn over records of the White House conversations; persuaded many of the burglars to implicate the higher-ups that ordered the whole thing--sentence them really harshly and says you can make a deal | 23 | |
| 9610678414 | Sam Ervin | part of the Senate Watergate Committee; became a chief part of the investigation; held hearings in which Dean and others testified | 24 | |
| 9610678415 | Elliot Richardson | lawyer and politician of the President's Cabinet, then became the Attorney General and was ordered to fire Archibald Cox; promised Congress not to interfere so he resigned | 25 | |
| 9610678416 | Archibald Cox | Watergate Special Prosecutor; after pushing for the tapes and the resignation of 2 attorney generals, he was fired | 26 | |
| 9610678417 | John Dean | Who was the White House counsel that testified about the Watergate scandal and linked Nixon to the cover-up? | 27 | |
| 9610678418 | Washington Post | Newspaper that won the Pulitzer Prize | 28 | |
| 9610678419 | Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein | 2 famous reporters for covering the scandal | 29 | |
| 9610678420 | Mark Felt | "Deep Throat" -Provided information to the writers from the newspaper about the involvement that Nixon had with the scandal "Follow the money" | 30 | |
| 9610678421 | Peter Rodino | chairman of the House Judiciary Committee | 31 | |
| 9610678422 | Obstruction of Justice | withholding information and making false statements; interfering with investigation | 32 | |
| 9610678423 | Abuse of Power | misuse of FBI and secret service and use of power to obtain confidential information from the IRS | 33 | |
| 9610678424 | Contempt of Congress | disobey subpoenas for power | 34 | |
| 9610678425 | Saturday Night Massacre | Elliot Richardson appointed Cox, but Nixon told him to fire Cox; people eventually fire Cox | 35 | |
| 9610678426 | Bork | Who fires Cox? | 36 |
