Presentation on The Watergate Scandal

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3. Begin: Break-in of the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C.

5. Washington Post, June 18, 1972

6. GOP Security Aide Among Those Arrested

7. Washington Post, June 19, 1972

8. Burglar on the payroll of President Nixon’s re-election committeeBob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

10. Washington Post, Sep 29, 1972

11. Attorney General controlled secret fund to gather information about Democrats

12. FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats

13. Washington Post, Oct 10, 1972

15. Washington Post, Nov 8, 1972

16. Matter didn’t get much prominence and Nixon gets a huge majority

17. Last Two Guilty in Watergate Plot

18. Washington Post, Jan 31, 1973

20. Washington Post, May 1,1973

21. FBI pierces the White House denials, senior officers prosecuted

22. By the summer of 1973, Watergate was a ‘full-blown national scandal’

24. Washington Post, June 3,1973

25. Presidential counsel John Dean breaks with the Nixon White House; cover-up “a cancer on the presidency”

26. President Taped Talks, Phone Calls

27. Washington Post, July 17,1973

29. Washington Post, July 24,1973

30. Stage set for a great constitutional struggle between a President and the Senate committee

31. Nixon Forces Firing of Cox

32. Washington Post, October 21,1973

34. Washington Post, October 21,1973

35. Demands for impeachment mount swiftly

36. Nixon Tells Editors, “I am Not a Crook”

37. Washington Post, November 18,1973

39. Washington Post, May 1,1974

40. The Nixon Watergate Papers made public

41. Court Orders Nixon to Yield Tapes; President Promised to Comply Fully

42. Washington Post, July 25,1974

44. Washington Post, July 28, 1974

45. The House Committee takes the momentous step of recommending Nixon’s impeachment

46. Nixon Resigns

47. Washington Post, August 9,1974

49. Effect on the next Senate Elections

50. Indirectly responsible for changes in Campaign Financing

51. Left such an impact on the national and international consciousness that many scandals since then have been labeled with the suffix –gate (Radia-Gate | Barkha-Gate)

52. Cultural Impact

53. Frost/Nixon

54. All the President’s Men