Watergate: Nixon's Downfall

1. How ere the "plumbers" connected to President Nixon?
They were his burglars trying to collect information about the democratic national convention.
2. Who was the judge? Why did he hand out maximum sentences?
Judge Sirica. He thought the burglars were taking orders from someone.
3. How were Mitchell and Dean connected to Nixon?
Dean was a former white house counsel person.
4. How were Haldeman and Erlichman connected to Nixon?
Chief of Staff, Chief Domestic Advisor
5. What did the following men tell the Senate about Nixon?

a. Dean
He said that the President was deeply involved in the conspiracy and cover-up.
b. Butterfield
Said that Nixon taped everything in the whitehouse
6. Who was fired or forced to resign in the "massacre"?
Richardson would not fire cox and resigned. Deputy attorney general resigned too. Solicitor General fired Cox.
7. Why weren't investigators satisified with the transcripts?
Because the transcripts were edited. Even the president is not allowed to withhold evidence.
8. What did the tapes reveal?
They Had many gaps in them, but a conversation between Haldeman and Nixon gave the investigators enough evidence to impeach him.
9. Why did Vice President Spiro Agnew resign?
He accepted bribes while Governor of Maryland.
10. What did the House Judiciary Committee charge President Nixon with?
obstruction of justice, abuse of power, contempt for Congress for refusing to obey a Congressional subpoena to release the tapes.
11. How did the Watergate scandal create a constitutional crisis?
Nixon had become an emperor not a president. He was abusing his power, and living above the law.