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Watergate Exam Questions and AnswersTopic: Nixon political career
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -1947- House of Representatives.
1952- Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate
Scandal that led to the infamous Checkers Speech.
Vice-President for eight years
lost the 1960 election to John F. Kennedy.
chosen again as the Republican Party's candidate at the 1968 election.
Nixon became the nation's 37th President on January 20, 1969.
He delivered his 'Silent Majority' speech on the Vietnam War, articulating his belief that
the bulk of the American people supported his policies and programs.
Won landslide re-election. He was sworn in for a second term in January 1973
Topic: Nixon during the scanal
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -Nixon made three major speeches on the
Watergate scandal during 1973 and 1974.
April 30, 1973- he announced the departure of Dean, Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
August 15, 1973
April 29, 1974- Nixon released partial transcripts of the White House tapes.
Topic: Investigations
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -Initial investigations of Watergate- media,
Washington Post, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Deep Throat.
Political investigations- February 1973- Senate established a Committee to investigate
the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee- evidence of John Dean,
Nixon's former White House Counsel. The Committee uncovered the existence of the
secret White House tape recordings- political and legal battle between the Congress
and the President.
1974- the House of Representatives authorized the Judiciary Committee to consider
impeachment proceedings against Nixon.
Topic: Nixon's resignation
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -The House Judiciary Committee voted to
accept three of four proposed Articles of Impeachment,
, Decision by the Supreme Court to order Nixon to release more White House tapes.
'smoking gun' tape- revealed that Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up as
far back as June 23, 1972. There were calls for Nixon to resign.
August 8, 1974- Nixon resignation speech. The next day, he sent his resignation letter
to the Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Topic: Causes of Burglaries
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -The New York Times begins publishing the
Pentagon Papers - the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The
Washington Post begins publishing the papers later in the week.
Topic: Burglary
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -The White House "plumbers" unit - named
for their orders to plug leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to
find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon
Papers.
Topic: Burglary
Source: Washington Post - Correct Answers -Five men, one of whom says he used to
work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic
National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex. A GOP security aide is
one of the Watergate burglars. Former attorney general John Mitchell, head of the
Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
Topic: Aftermath of burglary
Source: Washington Post - Correct Answers -A $25,000 cashier's check,presumably for
the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar. FBI agents
establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying
and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort.
Topic: Aftermath of burglary
Source: Washington Post - Correct Answers -Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and
James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the
Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty. Nixon's top White House staffers, H.R.
Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over
the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.
Topic: Investigation
Source: watergate.info - Correct Answers -The Senate Watergate committee begins its
nationally televised hearings. Attorney General-designate Elliot Richardson taps former
solicitor general Archibald Cox as the Justice Department's special prosecutor for
Watergate. John Dean has told Watergate investigators that he discussed the
Watergate cover-up with President Nixon at least 35 times.
Topic: Investigation
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