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Nixon and Watergate

Nixon and Watergate. History. Nixon as a Hero Soviet Union China-Ping Pong Vietnam Imperial Presidency +Supported by the silent majority -Insecure- Republicans -Henry Cabot Lodge and the elite of the East Coast. Kennedys +/- Had a small group of fiercely loyal advisers. Watergate.

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Nixon and Watergate

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  1. Nixon and Watergate

  2. History • Nixon as a Hero • Soviet Union • China-Ping Pong • Vietnam • Imperial Presidency • +Supported by the silent majority • -Insecure- Republicans -Henry Cabot Lodge and the elite of the East Coast. Kennedys • +/- Had a small group of fiercely loyal advisers

  3. Watergate • Break-in of Democratic National Committee

  4. Re-election campaign • June 17, 1972 break-in at the Watergate • Dirty tricks • Wiretaps • Telephones • Photograph documents • 5 plumbers • CREEP • Deep Throat-Woodward and • Bernstein

  5. Nixon’s re-election • George McGovern (Democrat) • Landslide victory November 1972 • Little notice of a burglary (John Deans Whitehouse extension number on one of the burglers) • 1973 Watergate Hearings • Cover-up revealed (John Dean) • Oval office tapes • “What did he know and when did he know it?” • Saturday Night Massacre • Agnew (VP) resigns-appoints Gerald R. Ford

  6. 1974 • Ordered to turn over the tapes-executive privelige • Missing minutes • Judge Sirica makes life uncomfortable • Impeachment looks like it will happen • Charged with: • Political burglary obstruction of justice Destruction of evidence tax fraud • Bribery illegal use of CIA/FBI • Wiretapping use of public money • conspiracy

  7. Aftermath • Every scandal after this has the word “gate” attached • People lost respect for the office of the presidency • Historical perspective • Nixon “takes a licking but keeps on ticking” • Clinton consults him often-he has a letter he rereads every year from Nixon.

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