"Best thing I've ever heard was from Richard Nixon's attorney general," said Bernstein, "who later went to jail [in] Watergate, and he said, 'Watch what we do and not what we say.' That pretty much tells us what we need to do. It's not that complicated." Richard Nixon spent t...
Who went to jail for Watergate and for how long? Several key members involved with the planning and the action of the Watergate Scandal were tried. Over 60 people were tried, and 48 people were arrested including top senior advisors in the Republican Party. ...
Who investigated the Watergate scandal? Watergate Scandal: The Watergate Scandal was a major political event that occurred during the Nixon Presidency. It began with a burglary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at the Watergate Complex in Washington, DC on June 17, 1972, and ended with...
To the left are arrest photo enlargements of the 4 Cubans from Miami who committed the crime: Valdez Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, and Frank Sturgis. June 13, 1973 Prosecutors discover a memo to John Ehrlichman regarding plans for the Plumbers’ break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s ...
Republicans, meanwhile, selected a handsome, articulatesenator from Tennessee by name of Howard Bakerto co-chair the Watergate committee. Baker was the son-in-law of the legendary Senate Republican leader,Everett Dirksen, who had operated in a highly cooperative, bipartisan way with Senate Democrats...
whorefuse to accept that Felt and Deep Throat are oneand the same. “I thought Deep Throat was essen-tially a composite character” folding in a numberof informers, “and I still think it is,” says G. GordonLiddy, the tough-guy White House operative whowent to jail for, among other ...