Jul 30, 2003 · The White House Daily Diary, which details all the President's meetings and telephone calls, shows that Mr. Ehrlichman did not meet or talk with President Nixon at any time on March 30, 1972.
Feb 17, 2022 · President Richard M. Nixon sits behind a mound of papers as he speaks with his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, in the White House. Haldeman was later convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal ...
Aug 09, 2014 · On the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation, we still don't know whether the president himself ordered the Watergate break-in. Richard …
Sep 06, 2018 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. President Richard Nixon might have gotten away with it if it weren't for John Dean. In June 1973, Dean testified before Congress that Nixon knew about the Watergate...
Frank Wills (February 4, 1948 – September 27, 2000) was a security guard best known for his role in foiling the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee inside the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Then 24, Wills called the police after discovering that locks at the complex had been tampered ...
When President Nixon agreed to turn over only some of the Watergate tapes or edited transcripts to the special prosecutor, the prosecutor filed a Supreme Court case against Nixon. How did news of the Watergate break-in affect Nixon's 1972 re-election bid? The news did not harm his re-election bid.
Due to multiple crimes he committed in the Watergate affair, Mitchell was sentenced to prison in 1977 and served 19 months. As Attorney General, he was noted for personifying the "law-and-order" positions of the Nixon Administration, amid several high-profile anti-war demonstrations.
The Plumbers' first task was the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's Los Angeles psychiatrist, Lewis J. Fielding, in an effort to uncover evidence to discredit Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers. ... Liddy involved Hunt in the operations which would later include the Watergate burglary.
The following morning, August 9, Nixon submitted a signed letter of resignation to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, becoming the first U.S. president to resign from office.
Gerald FordIn office December 6, 1973 – August 9, 1974PresidentRichard NixonPreceded bySpiro AgnewSucceeded byNelson Rockefeller55 more rows
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(born November 1, 1940) was treasurer of the Committee to Re-elect the President, Richard M. Nixon's 1972 campaign committee. He resigned from the Committee to Re-elect over ethics concerns related to actions behind the Watergate scandal. ...
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At behest of Liddy and Hunt, McCord and his team of burglars prepared for their first Watergate break-in, which began on May 28. Two phones inside the DNC headquarters' offices were said to have been wiretapped.
G. Gordon Liddy — former FBI agent and general counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President; convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping; sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison; served 4½ years in prison.
Richard Nixon gives the 'V' for victory sign after receiving the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, August 1968, in Miami, Fla. Aug. 9, 2014, 8:19 AM PDT / Updated Aug. 9, 2014, 9:10 AM PDT.
The Watergate burglars were a sort of successor group to the Plumbers working under Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, a former Plumber who’d become general counsel to the Nixon re-election campaign’s finance committee.
Nixon—the center of the whole scandal—received no punishment at all. He resigned on August 8, 1974 to evade impeachment. One month later, his former vice president, Gerald Ford, pardoned Nixon so that he’d never have to stand trial for his crimes, which were supported by evidence Nixon recorded himself.
John Dean testifying for the second day before the Senate Watergate Committee. He said he was sure that President Nixon not only knew about the Watergate cover-up but also helped try to keep the scandal quiet.
Dean was Nixon’s White House counsel on June 17, 1972, the night burglars broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. He had no prior knowledge of the break-in or the White House’s involvement.
THE EARLIEST BREAK-IN. Watergate actually was the culmination of a chain of events that began months before the failed break-in at the Democratic Party offices. In March 1971, presidential assistant Charles Colson helped create a $250,000 fund for “intelligence gathering” of Democratic Party leaders.
In 1977, the ABA created the Commission on Evaluation of Professional Standards, whose work led to the adoption of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct by the association’s policymaking House of Delegates in August 1983 .
Legal ethics and professionalism played almost no role in any lawyer’s mind, including mine. Watergate changed that—for me and every other lawyer.”. After Watergate, schools began to make legal ethics a required class. Bar examinations added an extra section on ethics.
Today, Krogh and Dean travel around the country speaking to bar associations, law firms and law schools about legal ethics. Each has been booked for about 20 programs in 2012.
By the summer of 1971, John Ehrlichman had authorized the creation of a special investigations unit, known simply as the Plumbers.
Heading up the Plumbers was Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr. , a deputy assistant to the president. Among his recruits were G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, who organized the Watergate break-in while working for the Committee for the Re-election of the President, aka CREEP.