Watergate by Ethan Hyun

H. R. Haldeman

2024-06-03 14:06:33 UTC

In the "Smoking Gun" tape, Haldeman was instructed by Nixon to have the CIA pressure the FBI into dropping the Watergate investigation under the connotations of said investigation opening up "the whole Bay of Pigs thing again."

Maurice Stans

2024-06-03 14:09:17 UTC

Serving as the finance chairman for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, in which he worked for the re-election of the Richard Nixon by raising money, he pleaded guilty to five counts for technical violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act that were revealed during the investigation into the Watergate scandal.

G Gordon Liddy

hyune1 — 2024-06-03 14:11:03 UTC

Was convicted on his role of the Watergate Scandal and refused to testify about it. He had some sort of connection to Richard Nixon's inner circle but no concrete evidence if he communicated to him directly.

E Howard Hunt

hyune1 — 2024-06-03 14:16:59 UTC

With Liddy, he was convicted because of his role in the watergate scandal. He was a former CIA agent and was hired by Nixon, specializing in political sabotage.

John Dean

2024-06-03 14:17:08 UTC

Dean was linked to Watergate via FBI Director L. Patrick Gray giving FBI reports to him. He plead guilty to one felony and acted as a witness in order to receive a reduced sentence. Dean took custody of evidence and money from the White House safe of E. Howard Hunt, who had been in charge of the burglaries, and destroyed some of the evidence before investigators could find it.

Richard Nixon

2024-06-03 14:17:25 UTC

Charles Colson

hyune1 — 2024-06-03 14:20:01 UTC

Named one of the watergate seven and pleaded guilty, serving 7 months in the federal prison. He served as a special counsel for Richard Nixon

Archibald Cox

hyune1 — 2024-06-03 14:22:42 UTC

Served as Solicitor General for JFK and was appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate scandal.

Sam Ervin

2024-06-03 14:25:09 UTC

Acted as chair of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices, also known as the Senate Watergate Committee. This committee partook in investigations which would uncover incriminating audio tapes of Nixon, leading to his resignation.

John Mitchell

hyune1 — 2024-06-03 14:25:12 UTC

Was the Attorney General of the United States serving right below Richard Nixon. He committed multiple crimes in the watergate scandal which led to him serving 19 months in prison.

Robert Bork

2024-06-03 14:32:33 UTC

Serving as solicitor general under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Bork was present during the "Saturday Night Massacre," when Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixon resigned rather than carrying out the order. However, Bork ended up firing Cox anyway, claiming he did so as a result of pressure from Nixon's attorneys.

John Ehrlichman

2024-06-04 12:47:48 UTC

Creator of "The Plumbers," close friends with H. R. Haldeman, and a member of Nixon's inner circle. Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman became known as "The Berlin Wall," because of their German sounding last names and tendency to isolate Nixon from anyone seeking an audience with him. John Dean cited "The Berlin Wall" as a reason for his growing alienation in the White House, believing he was to become the scapegoat for the Watergate scandal.

Jeb Stuart Magruder

2024-06-04 15:41:08 UTC

Magruder served under the director of CREEP John Mitchell as his deputy. He would later meet with White House Counsel John Dean and John Mitchell in order to review the preliminary plans by G. Gordon Liddy for intelligence gathering for the 1972 campaign. In exchange for cooperating with prosecutors, Magruder was allowed to plead guilty in August 1973 to one count of indictment of conspiracy to obstruct justice.

James McCord

2024-06-04 16:04:38 UTC

A former CIA agent hired onto the Committee to Re-Elect the President as head of security. He would go on to act as one of the Watergare burglars, participating in these burglaries as a technology expert. Being one of the first men convicted in the Watergate criminal trial, he submitted a letter to the judge of the case, John Sirica, in which he claimed that he and the other defendants had committed perjury in their trial and that there was pressure from higher up for them to have done so.

Richard Kleindienst

2024-06-04 16:13:52 UTC

Originally an attorney, Kleindienst was offered a position by Richard Nixon because John N. Mitchell agreed to serve as United States Attorney General on the condition that Kleindienst serve as Deputy Attorney General. After being told to drop a case by Nixon and Ehrlichman, Kleindienst came to question the ethics of the administration but kept himself from acting upon his concerns as it would conflict with his position as Deputy Attorney General.

Mark Felt

2024-06-04 16:26:44 UTC

Deputy Director of the FBI and the "Deep Throat" informant to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Woodward would call Felt frequently to get information for stories, Woodward calling him on June 19th to get information on Watergate, with Felt informing him of E. Howard Hunt's involvement and connections to Richard Nixon. Haldeman, close associate to Nixon, suspected Felt as the one giving leaks to the press, but John Dean prevented Haldeman from acting upon these suspicions.

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

2024-06-05 02:30:29 UTC

During his time as a reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bob Woodward worked with Carl Bernstein with the two going on to cover the Watergate scandal and make connection between those involved, with these connections eventually leading up to Nixon. They started by identifying one of the burglars as the recently hired former CIA agent, James McCord. Furthermore, they tracked a phone number in one of the burglar's address books which would lead them to Howard Hunt.

Ben Bradleee

2024-06-05 02:34:18 UTC

He covered the Watergate scandal as a journalist, backing Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in their probing of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel.

Donald Sergetti

2024-06-05 02:40:19 UTC

In support of Nixon's re-election campaign, Segretti ran a campaign of political sabotage against the Democrats for Nixon's reelection effort. He served four and a half months in prison after pleading guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal campaign literature

Committee To ReElect the President (CREEP)

2024-06-05 02:42:34 UTC

A fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign during the Watergate scandal, it contained a varying cast of shady characters.

Hugh Sloan

2024-06-05 02:50:42 UTC

He was the treasurer for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, but resigned after he discovered what the White House Plumbers had been up to. Mark Felt informed Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that he knew nothing of the burglary or how the funds he disbursed were used. Sloan would go onto become a source for Woodward and Bernstein, with them describing as one of the few honest men they interviewed.

18 Missing Minutes

2024-06-05 03:14:14 UTC

There was an eighteen and a half minute gap in a tape of a conversation between Richard Nixon and H. R. Haldeman, made significant by the fact that this conversation occurred three days after the burglary, in addition to Haldeman's notes on the meeting mentioning the arrests at the Watergate Hotel among the topics of discussion. Judge Sirica issued subpoenas for the tapes but was only informed of the eighteen missing minutes after the president's attorneys concluded that they could not offer an innocent explanation for the gap.

Saturday Night Massacre

2024-06-05 03:17:49 UTC

Richard Nixon ordered multiple members of the White House staff to fire Archibald Cox, the first special prosecutor who was tasked to independently investigate the Watergate scandal. All of the members Nixon gave this order to refused then resigned, until he asked Robert Bork, who carried out the order intending to resign afterward, only to be convinced to stay for the good of the Justice Department.

Senate Watergate Committee Investigation

2024-06-05 03:30:39 UTC

The United States Senate Watergate Committee, officially known as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, was a committee established by the United States Senate in 1973 to investigate the Watergate scandal, holding the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee. With Sam Ervin as its chair, the Committee led to John Dean's testimony about the cover-up in addition to Ervin's sparring with John Ehrlichman about whether constitutional law allowed a President to sanction such actions as the Watergate break-in.

Katharine Graham

2024-06-05 03:37:27 UTC

Katharine Graham presided over The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, encouraging the investigative work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee's stories on Watergate at a time when few other news outlets reported the matter. John Mitchell, recognizing the threat Graham and her outlet posed, made a threatening remark to Bradlee regarding Graham.

Judge John Sirica

2024-06-05 03:43:02 UTC

Judge John Sirica's involvement with Watergate began when he presided over the trial of the Watergate burglars. Correctly assuming that the burglars did not act alone, Sirica made use of provisional sentencing in order to squeeze information out of the burglars. One defendant, James McCord, would go on to write a letter describing a broader scheme of involvement by people in the Nixon administration. As the case progressed, Sirica would gain recognition when he ordered President Richard Nixon to surrender his recordings of White House conversations to Federal prosecutors

Elliot Richardson

2024-06-05 03:46:06 UTC

During the Saturday Night Massacre, he resigned in protest against President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. His resignation precipitated a crisis of confidence in Nixon which ultimately led to the president's resignation.

Gerald Ford

2024-06-05 03:50:29 UTC

Richard Nixon's successor who enacted the controversial pardon of the former president on September 8, 1974.

Spiro Agnew

2024-06-05 03:55:40 UTC

Despite being the vice president, Agnew had nothing to do with the Watergate scandal. He only lost his innocence when he pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion, resigning from office and being succeeded by Gerald Ford.