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The “Saturday Night Massacre” When the Senate Watergate hearings revealed that many of President Nixon’s meetings and telephone calls had been recorded, both the Ervin committee and the special prosecutor sought release of certain tapes thought to be related to Watergate.
Jun 17, 2022 · It's been 50 years since five men with links to the White House broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, launching a scandal that eventually led to President Richard Nixon ...
- "Sticking It to Washington."
- "Bebe Rebozo's Driving"
- The Memo That Uncovered The Cover-Up
- A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words
- "I Never Heard of E. Howard Hunt, No Sir, No."
- "I Love You - Like My brother."
The night before his second Inaugural, at 1:04 a.m. on January 20, 1973, President Nixon called his self-described "hatchet man" Chuck Colson from the Lincoln Sitting Room for an intimate conversation that reveals the hubris that led to his downfall. After a stunning re-election victory, he was eager to settle accounts with his enemies in the medi...
A self-described "introvert in an extrovert profession," Nixon had few personal friends. His closest pal, Florida real estate developer Bebe Rebozo (pictured on left with Nixon), addressed him as "Mr. President." Nixon aides joked that Bebe was "the perfect companion for a man who likes solitude, because being with Bebe can be almost as good as bei...
The Nixon White House was famous for its discipline, under the iron hand of chief of staff Bob Haldeman. But the facade of a unity and harmony crumbled after March 23, 1973, when the former CIA agent James McCord revealed in open court that perjury had been committed in the Watergate trial. The McCord letter to Judge Sirica (which did not mention a...
None of the existing Watergate books fully describe the wrenching human impact of the scandal on Nixon and his family. "Nobody really will know what they put a president through on a thing like this," Nixon complains to Henry Kissinger at one point. Nixon's daughter Julie did her best to boost her father's spirits by passing on "cheery" nuggets abo...
Even after all these years, it is still shocking to hear a president being blackmailed by one of his closest aides who has caught him in a bald-faced lie. At the height of his Watergate meltdown, on April 28, 1973, the president received a telephone call at Camp David from John Ehrlichman accusing him of involvement in an effort to blacken the memo...
Unlike Donald Trump, to whom he is sometimes compared, Nixon found it very painful to fire anyone. Finally compelled to part ways with his long-serving chief of staff, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, on April 30, 1973, he evokes the memory of a brother who died from tuberculosis while he was still a young man. "I love you, like my brother," he tells Haldeman....
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon which ultimately led to Nixon's resignation.
Oct 14, 2024 · What was the Watergate scandal? Who were the five burglars at the DNC office in the Watergate office complex? How was Richard Nixon involved in the Watergate scandal? Did Richard Nixon support the Vietnam War? Who succeeded Richard Nixon as president after he resigned?
Jun 14, 2022 · Find out more about the political scandal that shamed the White House and brought down President Richard Nixon, with this brief guide from BBC History Revealed Magazine to the break-in at the Watergate Hotel – and its fallout. Published: June 14, 2022 at 9:05 AM.
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Importantly, Watergate focused on impeachable actions that tied Nixon to burglary, a felony in the criminal code, and occurred in the putatively public domain. However, the Clinton scandal focused on the disjuncture between arguably private behaviors and public delity to the law.
