Watergate I. President Richard Nixon A.Early Career B.Electoral Struggles C.Nixon and Divided America II.The Election of 1972 A.Attack Plan B.The McGovern.

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Watergate I. President Richard Nixon A.Early Career B.Electoral Struggles C.Nixon and Divided America II.The Election of 1972 A.Attack Plan B.The McGovern Debacle III.Watergate A.The Cover Up B.Exposure C. Resignation, Pardon D.Impact

Richard Milhous Nixon Bitter –Anti-Establishment Whittier or Harvard –Losses President CA Gov. Unprincipled –Red Baiting Voorhis Douglas Hiss –Checkers Speech

A Nation Divided Breakdown of Cold War Liberal Consensus –Issues Vietnam Civil Rights –Events Showdown at Democratic Convention   The South defects Nixon wins

“Peace With Honor” Vietnamization –1969: 25K men leave –1971: only 160K remain Secret Bombings

Southern Strategy

Enemies List Daniel Ellsberg –The Pentagon Papers Paul Newman Barbra Streisand Jane Fonda James Reston Jack Anderson

The Break-Ins Early Attempts –Ellsberg’s Psychiatrist’s Office –The Brookings Inst. The Watergate Hotel The Plumbers –G. Gordon Liddy –Howard Hunt –The Cubans

George McGovern Thomas Eagleton Sargent Shriver

Landslide

The Cover-Up Charles Colson John Dean H.R. Haldeman John Erlichman John Mitchell

Exposure Washington Post Carl Bernstein Robert Woodward Katherine Graham

The Battle Spiro Agnew The Tapes “I’m not a crook”

Resignation August 9th 1974

The Pardon September 8, 1974