In an event known as the "Saturday Night Massacre", Ruckelshaus and his boss, Elliot Richardson, famously resigned their positions within the Justice Department rather than obey an order from President Nixon to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
  • "Deep Throat"
  • William Ruckelshaus
  • "Dirty Trick"
  • John Mitchell
He was the next Special Prosecutor of the Watergate case after Cox was fired. Jaworski was responsible for bringing to light many damaging facts of the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up.
  • John Dean
  • Leon Jaworski
  • Archibald Cox
  • James Mccord
Richard Nixon's nickname for the burglars.
  • "Hush Money"
  • "The Cubans"
  • Resignation
  • 18 1/2 Minute Gap
Led by Sam Ervin, the Senate Watergate Committee held televised hearings that exposed cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other illegal and improper activities of the Nixon White House and re-election campaign.
  • "Dirty Trick"
  • Peter Rodino
  • Senate Select Committee on Watergate
  • House Judiciary Committee
Nixon's first attorney general and his close friend and adviser; many people believe he ordered the Watergate break-in. He participated in the cover-up and served nineteen months in prison for his role.
  • H.R. Haldeman
  • John Dean
  • Leon Jaworski
  • John Mitchell
Verbatim textual records of the interaction, containing detail appropriate to the purpose of the investigation.
  • Transcripts
  • Permanent Record
  • "hush Money"
  • "cover-up"
Richard Nixon's committee for re-electing the president. Found to have been engaged in a "dirty tricks" campaign against the democrats inThey raised tens of millions of dollars in campaign funds using unethical means. They were involved in the infamous Watergate cover-up.
  • BOTTLING
  • PUSH-IN
  • FOLD-OUT
  • CREEP
1974; a Supreme Court ruling that obliged President Nixon to turn over to the Watergate special prosecutor sixty-four White House audiotapes; these helped prove that Nixon had known about the cover-up of the Watergate burglary.
  • United States vs. Richard Nixon
  • Elliot Richardson
  • Special Prosecutors Law
  • Sam Ervin
Investigative reporter for Washington Post helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation.
  • Bob Woodward
  • Lou Grant
  • Carl Bernstein
  • James Mccord
Impeding those who seek justice in a court (as by trying to influence or intimidate any juror or witness or officer of the court).
  • Obstruction of Justice
  • Miscarriage of Justice
  • To Convict
  • Deliberation of Jury
Chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Nixon's Presidency. Masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building inServed 4.5 years in prison.
  • John Ehrlichman
  • Henry Kissinger
  • G. Gordon Liddy
  • John Dean
Newspaper that first reported about the Watergate Scandal.
  • Usa Today
  • Washington Post
  • Chicago Tribune
  • New York Times
Considers legislation dealing with: civil liberties, constitutional amendments, federal courts and judges, immigration and criminal laws. Directed by the Constitution to consider articles of impeachment, and oversees the Justice department.
  • House Judiciary Committee
  • Senate Select Committee on Watergate
  • "Dirty Trick"
  • Peter Rodino
The right to keep executive communications confidential, especially if they relate to national security.
  • Abuse of Authority
  • 18 1/2 Minute Gap
  • Alexander Butterfield
  • "Executive Privilege"
The judge who tried the Watergate burglars and who eventually uncovered a connection to the Nixon White House.
  • Carl Bernstein
  • Judge John Sirica
  • E. Howard Hunt
  • Henry Kissinger
A bribe to keep someone silent about something, esp. to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
  • Resignation
  • "Executive Privilege"
  • Transcripts
  • "Hush Money"
Name given to the special investigations committee established along with CREEP inIts job was to stop the leaking of confidential information to the public and press.
  • sam ervin
  • "Plumbers"
  • pentagon papers
  • sandra day o'connor
Worked for the Nixon White House, in charge of the Watergate break in, convicted and went to jail for his involvement.
  • James Mccord
  • E. Howard Hunt
  • Bob Woodward
  • Leon Jaworski
The misuse of position and resources for personal gain or to give exception to another (using the power of an office illegally or wrong).
  • "Executive Privilege"
  • 18 1/2 Minute Gap
  • "Hush Money"
  • Abuse of Authority
Tapes which proved Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal. Although he withheld them at first, the Supreme Court made Nixon turn over these recordings of the plans for the cover-up of the scandal.
  • Tapes
  • "Saturday Night Massacre"
  • Watergate
  • Transcripts
Secret informant who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue story behind the Watergate Scandal; his true identity was a mystery until shortly before his death in 2008--former FBI agent W. Mark Felt acknowledged that he was the informant.
  • "Deep Throat"
  • Leon Jaworski
  • James McCord
  • John Dean
Worked with Bob Woodward to investigate the Watergate break-in.
  • H.r. Haldeman
  • Bob Woodward
  • Carl Bernstein
  • Leon Jaworski
The team will burglarize the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding, in hopes of securing information that the White House can use to smear Ellsberg's character and undermine his credibility.
  • "Saturday Night Massacre"
  • Watergate
  • Break-in at Ellesberg's Psychiatrists Office
  • Abuse of Authority
The amount of time erased from watergate tapes by Nixon.
  • 23 1/2 Minute Gap
  • 18 6/16 Minute Gap
  • 18 1/2 Minute Gap
  • 17 1/2 Minute Gap
Sam Ervin was a senator from North Carolina. He was chairman of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Presidential Campaign Practices during the Watergate scandal.
  • John Dean
  • Archibald Cox
  • Sam Ervin
  • Henry Kissinger
The Nixon Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), a private non-governmental campaign entity, used funds from its coffers to pay for, and later cover up, "dirty tricks" performed against opponents by Richard Nixon's employee, Donald Segretti.
  • Peter Rodino
  • "Dirty Trick"
  • "Plumbers"
  • CREEP
The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
  • Pentagon
  • Tea Pot Dome
  • Watergate
  • Russian Collusion
Nixon's Secretary of defense, and then his attorney general in charge of investigating the watergate scandal; refused to fire Archibald Cox upon Nixon's request, then resigned.
  • Elliot Richardson
  • Archibald Cox
  • James Mccord
  • Sam Ervin
Ehrlichman, along with Haldeman, was one of Nixon's most trusted aids. He was deeply involved with Nixon's scandals since he and Haldeman were Nixon's most trusted aids, doing whatever they felt necessary to protect Nixon.
  • Sam Ervin
  • Watergate
  • John Ehrlichman
  • H.r. Haldeman
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