Watergate: Nixon's Downfall

Wed., May 26 Homework

Read Chapter 32-2 in your online history textbook, The Americans. This is about the Watergate Scandal and the Nixon Administration.

Answer the following questions and post them to your blog: They are due at the end of the school day Thursday.

Title: Watergate: Nixon's Downfall Labels: Plumbers, Nixon, Watergate, Halderman, Dean, Taping_system, White_House, Erlichman, Mitchell, Butterfield, Saturday_Night_Massacre

1. How ere the "plumbers" connected to President Nixon?

2. Who was the judge? Why did he hand out maximum sentences?

3. How were Mitchell and Dean connected to Nixon?
Mitchell was Nixon's former attorney general and dean was a white house counsel to Nixon.
4. How were Haldeman and Erlichman connected to Nixon?
Erlichman was Nixon's
domestic advisor and Halderman was Nixon's White House Cheif of Staff

5. What did the following men tell the Senate about Nixon?

a. Dean
Told the court that the president had been deeply involved in the cover-up

b. Butterfield
Told that court that Nixon had taped all of his presidential conversations

6. Who was fired or forced to resign in the "massacre"?
Attorney General Richardson was forced to resign because he refused to follor orders and fire Archibald Cox.


7. Why weren't investigators satisified with the transcripts?

The transcripts had been edited.

8. What did the tapes reveal?
The tapes revealed how much Nixon knew about the cover up and gave the court enough evidence to impeach him.

9. Why did Vice President Spiro Agnew resign?

it was revealed that he had accepted bribes from engineering firms while he was governer of Maryland.

10. What did the House Judiciary Committee charge President Nixon with?
They impeached Nixon, charging him with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of congress fro not obeying a congressional subpoena and releasing the tapes.

11. How did the Watergate scandal create a constitutional crisis?
People became disillusion with imperial presidency. Many became cynical about public crisises because they no longer trusted the constitution.