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Term Paper Title	Watergate Scandal
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Watergate Scandal

Watergate Scandal

        Watergate was a designation of a major U.S. scandal that began with the
burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic party's headquarters, later engulfed
President Richard M. Nixon and many of his supporters in a variety of illegal
acts and culminated in the first resignation of a U.S. president.
     The burglary was committed on June 17, 1972, by five men who were caught
in the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment
and office complex in Washington D.C.  Their arrest eventually uncovered a White
House-sponsered plan of espionage against political opponents and a trail of
complicity that led to many of the highest officials in the land, including
former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White
House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic
Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon himself. On April 30, 1973, nearly
a year after the burglary and arrest and following a grand jury investigation of
the burglary, Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and
announced the dismissal of Dean U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst
resigned as well.  The new attorney general, Elliot Richardson, appointed a
special prosecutor, Harvard Law School profesor Archibald Cox, to conduct a
full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in.  In May of 1973, the Senate
Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings, with Senator Sam
Ervin of North Carolina as chairman. A series of startling revelations followed.
Dean testified that Mitchell had ordered the break-in and that a major attempt
was under way to hide White House involvement. He claimed that the president had
authorized payments to the burglars to keep them quiet.  The Nixon
administration immediately denied this assertion.
     The testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield unlocked the
entire investigation pertaining to White House tapes.  On July 16, 1973,
Butterfield told the committee, on nationwide television, that Nixon had ordered
a taping system installed in the White House to automatically record all
conversations; what the president said and when he said it could be verified.
Cox immediately subpoened eight revelant tapes to confirm Dean's testimony.
Nixon refused to release the tapes, claiming they were vital to the national
security.  U.S. District Court Judge Johm Sirica ruled that Nixon must give the
tapes to Cox, and an app...

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