Summary GCSE HISTORY USA CHAPTER 5 NOTES - WATERGATE

Watergate

- What was the Watergate scandal?
- How did this lead to the resignation of President Nixon?
- **How did this impact the USA?


Main people involved –

RICHARD NIXON President from Jan 1969
Set up White House Plumbers in 1971
Set up CREEP to raise funds for re-election campaign (1972)

JAMES MCCORD One of the burglars
Director of Security for CREEP
Claimed that White House officials has told the burglars to lie during trial


JOHN MITCHELL Director of CREEP
Denies links between burglars and CREEP


JOHN ERLICHMAN Head of White House Plumbers
Resigned for his part in the burglary and cover up (Apr 1973)


BOB HALDEMAN White House Chief of Staff
Dismissed by Nixon (Apr 1973)


JOHN DEAN White House Lawyer
Claimed by Nixon to have investigated the break in and no White House
staff were involved
Dismissed by Nixon (Apr 1973)
Testifies in Senate committee hearings that Nixon was involved in the
cover-up (June 1973)

BOB WOODWARD AND Journalists for Washington post
CARL BERNSTEIN Found evidence that the break in was linked to CREEP and the White
House




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