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May 16, 2013 · On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee ...
NIXON REACTS TO WATERGATE. Nixon made three major speeches on the Watergate scandal during 1973 and 1974. The first was on April 30, 1973, in which he announced the departure of Dean, Haldeman and Ehrlichman. A more defiant speech was delivered on August 15, 1973. Perhaps the politically most difficult speech was the one on April 29, 1974, in ...
O caso Watergate foi o escândalo político ocorrido em meados de 1972 nos Estados Unidos cujas investigações posteriores culminaram com a renúncia, em agosto de 1974, do presidente Richard Nixon, do Partido Republicano. [ 1] ". Watergate", de certo modo, tornou-se um caso paradigmático de corrupção. No total, cerca de 69 pessoas foram ...
The Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex by members of President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign, and the subsequent cover-up of the break-in resulting in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, as well as other abuses of power by the Nixon White House that were discovered during ...
Jun 14, 2022 · By the following January, seven men (‘the Watergate Seven’) went on trial for their involvement: five pleaded guilty, with the other two – former Nixon aides G Gordon Liddy and James W McCord – convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping. Soon after, a letter written by McCord alleged that five of the defendants had been pressured ...
Watergate: The aftermath. August 8, 1974: Nixon announces his resignation—and changes the presidency forever (Chapter 4) 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 far only ...
The Watergate break-in. CREEP eventually made a fatal blunder. On June 17, 1972, a security guard caught a group of five "burglars" in Washington, DC's Watergate office complex, home of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters. The incident seemed fairly innocuous until the FBI discovered that the burglars had ties with the CIA.
