9630046150 | enemies list | people who Nixon believe were against him that he had investigated by the IRS and FBI | 0 | |
9630073332 | the Plumber | G. Gordon Liddy, hired to "plug the leaks" in the White House | 1 | |
9630076855 | CREEP | derisive term for the Committee to Re Elect the President | 2 | |
9630085208 | Deep Throat | White House informant for Woodward and Bernstein, FBI official Mark Felt | 3 | |
9630092502 | Woodward and Bernstein | Washington Post reporters who uncovered the details of the Watergate break in and cover up | 4 | |
9630098140 | John Dean | presidential aid who revealed under oath that Nixon had secret tapes of Oval Office conversations | 5 | |
9630105428 | Archibald Cox | special prosecutor appointed by the Attorney General to investigate the Watergate Scandal | 6 | |
9630109878 | Elliot Richardson | Attorney General who resigned in protest when ordered to fire Cox | 7 | |
9630113441 | Robert Bork | appointed Attorney General who agreed to fire Cox in return for a nomination to the Supreme Court | 8 | |
9630119177 | U.S. v Nixon | Supreme Court ruling that the Oval Office tapes were not protected by executive privilege and must be handed over to investigators | 9 | |
9630137663 | impeachment | the act of charging a public official with a crime | 10 | |
9630141353 | Spiro Agnew | Vice President who resigned in 1973 over tax evasion and extortion charges | 11 | |
9630155401 | Watergate Hotel | location of Democratic National Convention Headquarters | 12 |
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