WATERGATE
Bob Woodward - Answer- Investigative reporter for Washington Post who helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation. Worked with Carl Bernstein on Watergate.
Carl Bernstein - Answer- Journalist for the Washington Post that helped uncover...
WATERGATE
Bob Woodward - Answer- Investigative reporter for Washington Post who helped
uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's
resignation. Worked with Carl Bernstein on Watergate.
Carl Bernstein - Answer- Journalist for the Washington Post that helped uncover the
Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward earning the Post the Pulitzer Prize for public
service, broke the story to the people
Ben Bradlee - Answer- Editor of washington post during watergate. He challenged
the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers and oversaw
the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's stories documenting the
Watergate scandal.
Richard Nixon and Watergate - Answer- a major political scandal that occurred in the
United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the
Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in
Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its
involvement. They also were bugging the offices of political opponents, and
harassed activist groups and political figures
John Michell - Answer- represented by the criminal defense attorney William G.
Hundley, was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and
sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate
break-in and cover-up. He would later resign
Charles Colson - Answer- Special Council to the President; served seven months in
prison in 1974 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in the Watergate-related
Daniel Esberg case; indicted for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
Ken Clawson - Answer- Deputy Director of Communications in the White House
Clark MacGregor - Answer- Assistant to Richard Nixon for congressional relations in
1970, Counsel to the President on congressional relations (1971-1972), Chairman of
the Committee to Re-elect the President (July to November 1972) following John
Mitchell's resignation from the position in the Watergate political scandal.
H.R. Haldeman - Answer- White House Chief of Staff, The "Smoking Gun" tape
revealed that Nixon instructed Haldeman to have the CIA pressure the FBI into
dropping their Watergate investigation.
John Ehrlichman - Answer- established a group known as the "plumbers," whose
purpose was to acquire political intelligence and repair "information leaks."
September 1971. On June 17, 1972, five members of the group were apprehended
at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate
complex. they had previously planted listening devices in the headquarters and were
returning to repair them.
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