Timeline of events- Watergate Exam Questions and Answers
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November 1968 - Answer-Richard Nixon, the 55-year-old former vice president who lost the presidency for the Republicans in 1960, reclaims it by defeating Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
july 23, 1970 - Answer-Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic i...
Timeline of events- Watergate Exam
Questions and Answers
November 1968 - Answer-Richard Nixon, the 55-year-old former vice president who lost
the presidency for the Republicans in 1960, reclaims it by defeating Hubert Humphrey in
one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
july 23, 1970 - Answer-Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic
intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. He has second thoughts a
few days later and rescinds his approval.
june 13, 1971 - Answer-The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers --
the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post will
begin publishing the papers later in the week.
september 9, 1971 - Answer-The White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders
to plug leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on
Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
june 17, 1972 - Answer-5 men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are
arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices, at the Watergate hotel and office
complex. of the Democratic National Committee
june 19, 1972 - Answer-A Republican security aide is among the Watergate burglars,
The Washington Post reports. Former attorney general John Mitchell, head of the Nixon
reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
august 1, 1972 - Answer-A $25,000 cashier's check, apparently earmarked for the
Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar
september 29, 1972 - Answer-John Mitchell, while serving as attorney general,
controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance widespread intelligence-gathering
operations against the Democrats
october 10, 1972 - Answer-FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from
a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon
reelection effort
november 11, 1972 - Answer-Nixon is reelected in one of the largest landslides in
American political history, taking more than 60 percent of the vote and crushing the
Democratic nominee, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota.
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