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| 10026756570 | Richard Nixon | 35th president, defeated George McGovern in 1972 |  | 0 |
| 10026756571 | Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | Investigative reporters from The Washington Post |  | 1 |
| 10026756572 | E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy | White House aides, both pleaded guilty to involvement in the burglary |  | 2 |
| 10026756573 | James McCord | Security coordinator for the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) and also a former CIA agent |  | 3 |
| 10026756574 | John Mitchell | Attorney General under Nixon, one of his closest friends |  | 4 |
| 10026756575 | John Ehrlichman | Part of the president's legal counsel; assistant to the president for domestic affairs |  | 5 |
| 10026756576 | H.R. Haldeman | White House Chief of Staff to Richard Nixon, found guilty and imprisoned for obstruction of justice |  | 6 |
| 10026756577 | John Dean | Part of the president's legal counsel; first to turn in evidence |  | 7 |
| 10026756578 | Gerald Ford | 36th president, first non-elected president; pardoned Nixon |  | 8 |
| 10026756579 | Sam Ervin | Senator from North Carolina who convened hearings on the Watergate scandal |  | 9 |
| 10026756580 | Archibald Cox | Special prosecutor in Watergate scandal, fired in the "Saturday Night Massacre" |  | 10 |
| 10026756581 | Alexander Butterfield | Deputy Assistant for Richard Nixon, showed audio tapes |  | 11 |
| 10026756582 | John Sirica | Chief Judge for District Court, the trial's presiding judge |  | 12 |
| 10026756583 | Frank Willis | Security guard who saw the piece of tape that revealed the Watergate Scandal |  | 13 |
| 10026756584 | Rose Mary Woods | President Nixon's secretary who may have accidentally erased audio tapes |  | 14 |
| 10026756585 | L. Patrick Gray | Acting director of the FBI who resigned after destroying Watergate evidence |  | 15 |
| 10026756586 | Impeachment | A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office |  | 16 |
| 10026756587 | The "Plumbers" | The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, was a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established July 24, 1971, during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information, such as the Pentagon Papers, to the news media. |  | 17 |
| 10026756588 | C.R.E.E.P. | A committee that was made to re-elect the president Nixon. |  | 18 |
| 10026756589 | Perjury | lying under oath |  | 19 |
| 10026756590 | Political Espionage | the act or practice of spying. 2. the use of spies by a government to discover the military and political secrets of other nations. ... the use of spies by a corporation or the like to acquire the plans, technical knowledge, etc., of a competitor: industrial espionage. |  | 20 |
| 10026756591 | Saturday Night Massacre | The Saturday Night Massacre refers to U.S. President Richard Nixon's orders to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, which led to the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal. |  | 21 |
| 10026756592 | Subpoena | notice ordering someone to appear in court |  | 22 |
| 10026756593 | Separation of Powers | The division of powers among the different branches of government |  | 23 |
| 10026756594 | Judicial Review | Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws |  | 24 |
| 10026756595 | Indictment | formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime |  | 25 |
| 10026756596 | Executive Privilege | In the United States government, executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government to access information and personnel relating to the executive branch |  | 26 |
