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Oct 28, 1974 · October 28, 1974 12:00 AM EST. I t was an appropriately bizarre way to begin the final phase of Watergate. After the opening statements, Federal Judge John J. Sirica’s Washington courtroom was ...
Watergate: The aftermath. August 8, 1974: Nixon announces his resignation—and changes the presidency forever (Chapter 4) By Ken Hughes. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. With those words, Richard Nixon became the first—and so ...
Dec 12, 2023 · Later Monday, the justices indicated they would decide quickly whether to hear the case, ordering Trump's lawyers to respond by Dec. 20. The court's brief order did not signal what it ultimately ...
Dec 23, 2023 · Nearly 50 years ago, the justices acted within two months of being asked to force President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office recordings in the Watergate scandal. The tapes were then used ...
He soon gained the reputation as a maverick judge, at times irritable and careless, and earned the nickname “Maximum John” for his harsh rulings. It was not unusual for his decisions to be overturned during appeal. In 1973 he presided over the Watergate trials. Quickly growing impatient with their pace and the lack of information yielded ...
That was President Richard Nixon's first assessment of the Watergate break-in on June 20, 1972, three days after five men were apprehended for unlawfully entering Democratic National Committee headquarters. He was right—in the short-term. Less than five months later, 23.5 percent more Americans voted for Nixon than for Democrat George McGovern.
When Judge John Sirica gaveled the trial of the Watergate seven to order on January 8, 1973, federal investigators had already discovered a covert slush fund used to underwrite nefarious activities against Democrats. The money and the men on trial could be linked to the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP) at whose head sat the former ...
