WatergateI. President Richard Nixon
A. Early CareerB. Electoral StrugglesC. Nixon and Divided America
II. The Election of 1972A. Attack PlanB. The McGovern Debacle
III. WatergateA. The Cover UpB. ExposureC. Resignation, PardonD. Impact
Richard Milhous Nixon• Bitter
– Anti-Establishment
• Whittier or Harvard
– Losses• 1960-- President• 1962-- CA Gov.
• Unprincipled– Red Baiting
• Voorhis• Douglas• Hiss
– Checkers Speech
A Nation Divided
• Breakdown of Cold War Liberal Consensus– Issues
• Vietnam
• Civil Rights
– Events• Showdown at
Democratic Convention
• The South defects
• Nixon wins
“Peace With Honor”
• Vietnamization
– 1969: 25K men
leave
– 1971: only 160K
remain
• Secret Bombings
Southern Strategy
Enemies List
• Daniel Ellsberg– The Pentagon
Papers
• Paul Newman• Barbra
Streisand• Jane Fonda• James Reston• Jack Anderson
The Break-Ins
• Early Attempts– Ellsberg’s
Psychiatrist’s Office– The Brookings Inst.
• The Watergate Hotel
• The Plumbers– G. Gordon Liddy– Howard Hunt– The Cubans
George McGovern
• Thomas Eagleton
• Sargent Shriver
Landslide
The Cover-Up
• Charles Colson
• John Dean
• H.R. Haldeman
• John Erlichman
• John Mitchell
Exposure
• Washington Post• Carl Bernstein• Robert Woodward• Katherine Graham
The Battle• Spiro Agnew
• The Tapes
• “I’m not a crook”
Resignation
• August 9th 1974
The Pardon
• September 8, 1974
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