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Watergate Quiz with complete solutionswhen are the plumbers indicted? - Correct Answers --September 15, 1972
When is the senate select committee convened? - Correct Answers -fall of 1972
What is Nixon best known for? - Correct Answers --EPA
-Furthering civil rights legislation
-ending US involvement in Vietnam War
-Improving US's relationship with China and USSR
What did Nixon do in the 40's and 50's? - Correct Answers --he was a representative in
congress
What did Nixon do in 52-60? - Correct Answers --he was the vice president under
eisenhower
What happened to Nixon in 1960? - Correct Answers --he lost to Kennedy in the first
televised election
What happened to Nixon in 1962? - Correct Answers --he looses the Governor of
California race
What happened to Nixon in 1968? - Correct Answers --he beat Humphrey and Wallace
by a landslide
What happened to Nixon In 1971? - Correct Answers --paranoia kicked in
-the pentagon papers were released and he got so paranoid that he installed a taping
system in the oval office
Recount the night of the watergate break in - Correct Answers --the morning of June 17,
1972, Frank Willis, night watchman of the complex, discovers a piece of tape over a
basement door lock in the watergate apartment and office building in Washington DC.
He removes the tape, however, he comes back an hour later and find it has been taped
again-at that time he decides to call the local police
-Once officers respond to the call, they find 5 plumbers on the 6th floor in the offices of
the democratic national committee
, -the burglars at first give false identification, however it doesn't take long for authorities
to connect the burglars to CREEP
-the burglars had entered the watergate complex to install electronic bugging equipment
into telephones to transfer information about the democratic campaign back to CREEP
-most newspapers downplayed or ignored the break-in, however the Washington Post
ran an article on the front page of the sunday edition
-Reporters for the washington post, Woodward and Bernstein, knew there was more to
this investigation so they began to run an in-depth investigation
-In response to the story, Nixon, his campaign manager Mitchell, and the press
secretary Zeigler, all denied any presidential involvement
Recount the investigation - Correct Answers --In the earlier days, the American people
didn't believe that Nixon had been involved at all, however, the Washington post kept
publishing information and slowly the American people's perceptions began to change
-Woodward and Bernstein slowly begin to link Nixon's advisors and eventually Nixon
himself to a cover up of the administration's involvement in the burglary
-Once other groups started to avidly pursue the story, the grand jury started to get
involved
-In September of 1972, the grand jury indicted white house aides Gordon Liddy and
Howard Hunt.
-They also indicted the 5 burglars: CREEP's director of security, James McCord and 4
others
-Hunt and the burglars later plead guilty to taken apart in the burglary, however, McCord
stays silent
-the watergate investigation reveals that there was more than just the burglary.
Woodward and Bernstein obtained evidence that White House officials had made
numerous efforts to ensure Nixon's re-election- they planned to discredit and sabotage
several democratic presidential contenders, they pledged to do whatever necessary to
stop government leaks to the press, and they extorted millions of dollars in campaign
contributions to pay the burglars/plumbers
Recount the congressional hearings - Correct Answers --In March of 1973, Judge Sirica
sentences Liddy, Hunt and 4 of the burglars to 20, 35, and 40 years in prison
-McCord admits just before the sentencing that there is more information to be shared
-Soon thereafter, L. Patrick Grey the director of the FBI admitted to having destroyed
watergate evidence- he then resigned
-North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, also the chairman on senate select committee,
makes sure all watergate hearings are televised so that the American people can watch
-In June, John Dean, whom Nixon had fired as White House Council in April, testified
before the Senate Select committee
-Dean reveals that the former attorney General, John Mitchell had ordered the
watergate break in. He explains that the white house was covering up involvement and
that the president had authorized payments of Hush money to the burglars to keep them
quiet
-On July 16, white house aide Butterfield reveals the white house taping system
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