1. 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

2. Richard Milhous Nixon Bitter –Anti-Establishment Whittier or Harvard –Losses 1960-- President 1962-- CA Gov. Unprincipled –Red Baiting Voorhis Douglas Hiss –Checkers Speech

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

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

5. Southern Strategy

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

7. 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

8. George McGovern Thomas Eagleton Sargent Shriver

9. Landslide

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

11. Exposure Washington Post Carl Bernstein Robert Woodward Katherine Graham

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

13. Resignation August 9th 1974

14. The Pardon September 8, 1974