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Watergate Exam with complete solutionsWhat were the burglars looking for? - Correct Answers -information on Larry O'Brien
What office was located at the Watergate Complex? - Correct Answers -Democratic
National Committee
Who was Larry O'Brien? - Correct Answers -Democratic National Committee Chairman
Why did members of CREEP resort to illegal tactics? - Correct Answers -Nixon wanted
to win the next election by the greatest amount ever in a presidential election
Who was G. Gordon Liddy? - Correct Answers -former FBI agent and current White
House staff assistant; hired to gather intelligence on Nixon's enemies
Who was E. Howard Hunt? - Correct Answers -former CIA operative; brought in by
Liddy to help carry out the mission
What was Nixon paranoid about? - Correct Answers -his enemies and leaks to the
press would undermine his international agenda
Who was Daniel Ellsberg? - Correct Answers -former military analyst who leaked the
Pentagon Papers
Who were the "plumbers"? - Correct Answers -special investigation team created by
Nixon to "stop leaks"
What did the Watergate burglars and CREEP hope to learn? - Correct Answers -
advanced knowledge of DNC campaign tactics
Why was the mission a failure? - Correct Answers -notes were taken on gossip between
office secretaries; bug on O'Brien's phone was defective
Why did the taped door cause such concern? - Correct Answers -the security guard
knew the cleaning staff had gone home for the night
What were Nixon's aides concerned the press would find? - Correct Answers -evidence
of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office
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