FINAL EXAM REVIEW Nixon, Watergate, Ford, Carter Submit Assignment Questions and Answers
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Watergate
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Watergate
Why would the Nixon campaign team take such a risky action as breaking into the opposition's headquarters? - Answer-Because of Nixon's overwhelming fear of losing and the team's belief that all means should be taken to defeat the opponent.
What steps did the White House take to cover up its invo...
FINAL EXAM REVIEW Nixon, Watergate,
Ford, Carter Submit Assignment
Questions and Answers
Why would the Nixon campaign team take such a risky action as breaking into the
opposition's headquarters? - Answer-Because of Nixon's overwhelming fear of losing
and the team's belief that all means should be taken to defeat the opponent.
What steps did the White House take to cover up its involvement in the Watergate
break-in? - Answer-1. Nixon was paranoid but tried to act calm.
2. Shredded all incriminating documents
3. Asked CIA to urge the FBI to stop its investigations into the burglary.
4. CRP passed paid off burglars to buy their silence.
What was significant about the revelation that Nixon taped his conversations? - Answer-
All presidential conversations recorded to reveal exactly what Nixon knew and when he
knew it.
How did the Watergate scandal create a constitutional crisis? - Answer-It is a
constitutional crisis because it leads a discussion whether the President of United
States can be prosecuted for criminal charges during his term of office.
The executive tranche had become imperial during Nixon's presidency. He has a loyal
group of advisers that played significant role in 1968's election. Along with Nixon, they
share the desire for secrecy and the consolidation of power. The President's man
developed a sense that they were (some) what above the law, foreshadows President
Nixon's coming scandal.
The tape from Butterfield is the key of the crisis; although Butterfield claimed that it is for
Nixon's memoirs, for the Senate committee take it as the key to revealing what Nixon
knew and when he knew. if the tape doesn't exist, the former White House counsel
wouldn't have enough support to declare that Nixon had been deeply involved in the
cover
Would Nixon have been forced to resign if the tapes had not existed? What if he had
apologized for the break-in? - Answer-I predict no. If he apologized for the break-in,
public would recognize the truth and start to doubt the trustworthness of the US
goverment.
Did Gerald Ford make a good decision in granting Nixon a full pardon? - Answer-(full
free and absolute)Yes. He pardoned Richard Nixon by saying that the prospects of such
trial will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further
punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of
relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States, which is just as he stated at
the beginning by listing some elements of Nixon's resume.
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