9737769658 | Phase 1 | "Siege mentality" obsession with war protestors | 0 | |
9737769659 | Bob Haldeman | Chief of Staff | 1 | |
9737769660 | John Ehrlichman | Chief of domestic affairs | 2 | |
9737769661 | John Dean | White House Counsel, lawyer | 3 | |
9737769662 | Daniel Ellsberg | leaked the Pentagon Papers | 4 | |
9737769663 | Gordon Liddy | the former FBI agent who helped plan the Watergate break-in | 5 | |
9737769664 | Howard Hunt | former CIA, who helped watergate break in | 6 | |
9737769665 | Phase 2 | Obsession with re-electing Nixon in 1972 | 7 | |
9737769666 | CREEP | Committee to Re-Elect the President | 8 | |
9737769667 | John Mitchell | Attorney general and director of CREEP | 9 | |
9737769668 | Jeb Magruder | Deputy Campaign Director of CREEP | 10 | |
9737769669 | James McCord | Bugging expert, former CIA | 11 | |
9737769670 | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward | Two reporters of the Washington Post who broke the Watergate story | 12 | |
9737769671 | George McGovern | Democrat running against Nixon on antiwar platform in 1972 election | 13 | |
9737769672 | John Sirica | judge of Watergate; gave tough sentences; ordered Nixon to hand over tapes | 14 | |
9737769673 | Break in silence of the case | McCord wrote a letter to Sirica | 15 | |
9737769674 | People Nixon fired | Dean, haldeman, ehrlichman | 16 | |
9737769675 | Phase 3 | Senate select committee on presidential campaign activities | 17 | |
9737769676 | Sam Ervin | Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee | 18 | |
9737769677 | Alexander Butterfield | White house aid who revealed the taping system | 19 | |
9737769678 | Spiro Agnew | VP under Nixon, resigned for extortion and bribery charges | 20 | |
9737769679 | Gerald Ford | Congressman that replaces Agnew as VP then Nixon as president | 21 | |
9737769680 | Phase 4 | Fight over tapes | 22 | |
9737769681 | Archibald Cox | The Special Prosecutor that was hired to investigate the Watergate Scandal | 23 | |
9737769682 | Elliot Richardson | Attorney General that resigned instead of firing Cox | 24 | |
9737769683 | Leon Jaworski | New special prosecutor, replaced Cox | 25 | |
9737769684 | Phase 5 | Issue of impeachment | 26 | |
9737769685 | Impeachment | To bring formal charges against | 27 | |
9737769686 | Power to impeach the president | House of Representatives | 28 | |
9737769687 | Who conducts trial | Senate | 29 | |
9737769688 | House Judiciary Committee | approved articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon for obstructing justice, misuse of power, and defiance of congress for tapes | 30 | |
9737769689 | August 8, 1974 | Nixon announced his resignation from office | 31 | |
9737769690 | How many people were found guilty in watergate? | 70 | 32 | |
9737769691 | Who gave Nixon a pardon | Gerald Ford | 33 |
US HISTORY NIXON/WATERGATE Flashcards
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