John Dean - ANSWERWhite House Counsel
Played a very big role in the cover up and in the events leading to the burglars
Top white House lawyer
4 months in prison
Testified about the cover up and supervising hush money payments
Fired by Nixon
"Master Manipulator of the Watergate Cover-up" (That...
Played a very big role in the cover up and in the events leading to the burglars
Top white House lawyer
4 months in prison
Testified about the cover up and supervising hush money payments
Fired by Nixon
"Master Manipulator of the Watergate Cover-up" (That's what the FBI called him)
Bob Haldeman/John Erlichmann - ANSWERHaldeman:
Chief of Staff
Ehrlichmann:
Advisor for Domestic Policy
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Ehrlichman approved the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist
Ehrlichman said "I don't remember" 100 times in his testimony
Haldeman claimed "All presidents do this," in his testimony
Both get fired
Both known together as "Berlin Wall"
Both supplied hush money to people
John Mitchell - ANSWERHead of CREEP and the Plumbers
Link between Nixon and Watergate case
Ultimate loyalist to Nixon
Said that, "He would've done anything to get Nixon re-elected."
Former Attorney General for White House
Advice he gave to Hugh Sloan about being on trial was, "When the going get tough, the tough get
going"
, He served 19 months in prison
June 17, 1972 - ANSWERNight of Watergate break-in
They had $100 bills in their pockets consecutively numbered
2 AM-5 burglars caught in DNC
Happened in Watergate hotel
This was the HQ of DNC
Washington DC
Woodward and Bernstein - ANSWERUncovered "dirty tricks"
Worked with Felt
Beginning of the "third rate burglary" of the DNC
Worked for Washington Post
For many months after the break in they wrote front page articles of who was behind Watergate
Woodward described Nixon presidency as corrosive, hateful, with resentment and distrust
Received Watergate story as a "throwaway" decision
Plumbers - ANSWERGroup created by the Nixon administration to stop "leaks" from the Watergate
Scandal
Created by Huston Plan, used during the leak of the "Pentagon Papers"
They identified people who were leaking information that they did not want released
They did Nixon's dirty work during the coverup
Howard Hunt and G Gordon Liddy were a big part of the plumbers-
Broke into numerous places to find dirt on people
Sub-division of CREEP
James McCord - ANSWEROne of the 5 Watergate burglars
Security chief of CREEP
Former CIA agent
Starts naming names
Thought of himself as a patriot
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