2024 Final Nixon and Watergate Questions and Answers

2024 Final Nixon and Watergate Questions and Answers Silent Majority - CORRECT ANSWER-that group of quiet honest hard-working middle class Americans who do their job, respect their country and support Gov.; Nixon wants their votes in 1968 and 1972 Daniel Ellsberg - CORRECT ANSWER-1971. gave Pentagon Papers to public and press during winter soldier investigation. he was convicted for conspiracy, theft and to be in violation of the espionage act for tapping lines and recording the conversations into the pentagon papers. the supreme court overturned his indictment citing 1st amendment and saying the pentagon papers were an example of the credibility gap. Pentagon Papers - CORRECT ANSWER-(1971) Defense Department document revealing government's lack of honesty in its communication about Vietnam White House Plumbers - CORRECT ANSWER-covert White House Special Investigations Unit set. July 24, 1971 during presidency of Richard Nixon. It's task was to stop the leaking of classified info to the news media. Its members branched into illegal activities working for the Committee to Re-elect the President, including the Watergate break-ins and the ensuing Watergate scandal. Watergate - CORRECT ANSWER-1972, The scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment Deep Throat - CORRECT ANSWER-Bob Woodward's anonymous source to the Watergate scandal; eventually revealed himself to be Mark Felt, the Deputy Director of the FBI Woodward and Bernstein - CORRECT ANSWER-They were 2 Washington Post reporters followed clues furnished by a secret i