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The “-gate” that started it all

Watergate is perhaps the most famous scandal of the past century. Even those who don’t know the details have heard of it, and every scandal or conspiracy since has been compared—Deflategate, Pizzagate, and so on. But what about Watergate made it so compelling to millions of people? Read on to find out. 

 

Watergate Affair

  • The Watergate Break-in

  • The Investigations

  • Nixon’s Resignation and the Aftermath

  • Presidential Scandals

  • The Independent Counsel Act

  • Richard Milhous Nixon

  • Pentagon Papers

  • Nixon’s Second Presidential Term

  • Richard Nixon’s Resignation Speech

  • Gerald Ford

  • George Stanley McGovern

  • A Short History of Impeachment

  • Encyclopedia: Impeachment

Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

  • Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.); chairman
  • Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.); vice chairman
  • Edward J. Gurney (R-Fla.)
  • Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii)
  • Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M)
  • Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.)
  • Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.)

The Major Players

  • Alexander Haig, Nixon’s civilian chief of staff (1973—74)
  • Charles Ruff, Watergate special prosecutor
  • Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox
  • Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworkski
  • Senior Sssistant to Archibald Cox James Vorenberg
  • Edward Levi, former attorney general
  • James St. Clair, Nixon’s Defense Attorney
  • Richard C. Kleindienst, Nixon’s attorney general
  • John Ehrlichman
  • Bebe Rebozo, Nixon friend
  • Maurice H. Stans
  • John Newton Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection committee
  • Herman Talmadge, member of the Senate Watergate Committee
  • Elliot Lee Richardson, Nixon attorney general
  • Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher
  • Mary McGrory, journalist
  • Maurice Hubert Stans, finance chairman for Nixon’s reelection campaign
  • Daniel Ellsberg
  • Robert Bork
  • Jack Anderson

 

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