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Watergate: Where Are They Now? Forty years ago this Sunday, police arrested five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office and apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The ensuing political scandal would ultimately destroy the presidency of Richard Nixon, send 40 people to jail and shatter the American public’s faith in government.
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Call for Hillary to 'go to prison' for email scandal Call for Hillary to 'go to prison' for email scandal. 'This is the national-security equivalent of drunken driving'. Greg Corombos is news director for Radio America. The Russians did hack into the U.S. government, and so did any foreign intelligence worth its salt, most likely through former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server.
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TIMELINE June 17 - Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.Post Story. June 19 - A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, The Washington Post reports.une 17 - Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
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Al Capone Goes to Prison â But Not for the Massacre Al Capone Goes to Prison — But Not for the Massacre Al Capone was in Florida at the time of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and claimed he had nothing to do with it. He was never arrested or prosecuted in connection with the crime. However, Capone did end up going to prison — twice — soon after the Massacre, effectively ending his reign as the leader of Chicago organized crime.
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What is the watergate scandal? what happened? On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Watergate Complex in D.C. When this crime was investigated, it was found that Nixon had prior knowledge of this scandal, and he had tape recordings to prove it.When asked to turn over the tapes, Nixon refused.n June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Watergate Complex in D.C. When this crime was investigated, it was found that Nixon had prior knowledge of this scandal, and he had tape recordings to prove it.
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TIMELINE Post Story. July 27 - Thirty years after the Senate select committee hearings on Watergate riveted the nation and doomed the Nixon presidency, a key figure in the scandal says he has a fresh and explosive revelation: Richard M. Nixon personally ordered the burglary of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex.
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Why was watergate such a big deal? It really wasn't about the actually crime so much (though it was very bad and Nixon fully deserved that slap on the wrist for it), but moreso about the government deceiving the people. As far as his actually participation, he ordered the Plumbers to bug the hotel offices and such.
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- June 17 - Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex. Post Story. June 19 - A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, The Washington Post reports.
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- The Watergate scandal which brought down the Nixon presidency entails the break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters in 1972, the cover-up of the break-in, and assorted scandals and improprieties that the investigation subsequently revealed.
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Watergate: Where Are They Now? Dean spent four months in prison and is now an active political commentator. (G. Gordon Liddy A former FBI agent, Liddy served as general counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which provided money to the Watergate burglars. He spent four and a half years in prison for arranging the botched burglary and participating in related activities.
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The Watergate Scandal â How Richard Nixon Lost His Presidency For two years the president had been lying to the American people. After seeing no other way out of the scandal, Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Vice President Gerald Ford took office and a month later pardoned Nixon for the crimes he may have committed. The Watergate scandal changed American politics. Many people started looking at their leaders in a different way and no longer had much faith in them.
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TESTING OF A PRESIDENT: CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES; Can President Be Prosecuted? No One Knows for Sure Correction: August 4, 1998, Tuesday An article on July 28 about whether a President can be prosecuted described Leon Jaworski's status as a Watergate special prosecutor incorrectly. Mr. Jaworski, who was special prosecutor when President Nixon resigned, was the second of four men to hold that post, not the last. He was followed by Henry S. Ruth Jr. and Charles F. C. Ruff.
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What was Watergate? Here are 14 facts that explain everything The cover-up It is important to note that Nixon never ordered the break-in at the Watergate complex – the approval for that came from Nixon’s former Attorney General and chair of CREEP John Mitchell – but he colluded in its aftermath to distance his administration from it.
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THE 'HONEST HOUSE' OF HUGH SLOAN Hugh W. Sloan Jr., now 51, had been the treasurer of CREEP, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and within a month of the June 17 Watergate break-in had quit his job in revulsion at what he saw going on around him. Hugh Sloan did the right thing. Many didn't, and went to jail. Instead, the Sloans went to Michigan. Hugh entered the private sector and is now president of the Woodbridge Automotive Group, which has supplied seat foam or some other interior component, he says, for half the cars on the road in this country.
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Watergate Scandal As a result of a third-rate burglary on June 17 of that year, it came to be associated with the greatest political scandal of that century and would change the lives of the many people involved especially President Richard M. Nixon.
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Chapter 24- An Age of Limits Test A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.
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Watergate Seven John Ehrlichman – former assistant to Nixon in charge of domestic affairs; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $40,000 in fines. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges; he served 18 months in prison.
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- Watergate burglars arrested, June 17, 1972. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac.They possessed burglary tools, cameras, film and pen-size tear gas guns. Got Syria So Wrong. On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac.
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Watergate Scandal Although the Post continued to investigate, little more came to light during the balance of the campaign. On August 19, Nixon declared that no one then employed in his administration was involved in Watergate. On September 15, indictments were handed down on the five men arrested on June 26, plus Liddy and Hunt.
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What was Watergate? Here are 14 facts that explain everything It is important to note that Nixon never ordered the break-in at the Watergate complex – the approval for that came from Nixon’s former Attorney General and chair of CREEP John Mitchell – but he colluded in its aftermath to distance his administration from it.
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Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People An eye-opening remark from a former aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States’ war on drugs. John Ehrlichman, who served 18 months in prison for his central role in the Watergate scandal, was Nixon’s chief domestic advisor when the president announced the “war on drugs” in 1971. The administration cited a high death toll and the negative social impacts of drugs to justify expanding federal drug control agencies.
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What were the main causes and consequences of the Watergate Scandal? The main consequence of Watergate was the loss of respect for the Presidency, the Congress, and indeed the US Government in general.h yes, there is one other consequence that bears mentioning, but it isn't a part of the Watergate scandal itself, and that is impeachment, or more properly, impeachment AND CONVICTION.
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Hillary Clinton May Go to Prison Hillary Clinton is going to prison–or would be, if she were an ordinary person. According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), at least two of the emails contained “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information.”.
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APUSH Nixon-Reagan Watergate. June 17, 1972 - five men arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee's executive quarters in the Watergate Hotel. Two White House aides were indicted; they quit, Senate hearing began in May, 1973, Nixon admitted to complicity in the burglary.