Watergate Exam Questions & Answers
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Topic: Nixon political career
Source: watergate.info - ANSWER1947- House of Representatives.
1952- Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate
Scandal that led to the infamous Checkers Speech.
Vice-President for eight years
lost the 1960 election to John F. Kennedy.
chosen again as the Republican Party's candidate at the 1968 election.
Nixon became the nation's 37th President on January 20, 1969.
He delivered his 'Silent Majority' speech on the Vietnam War, articulating his belief that the bulk of
the American people supported his policies and programs.
Won landslide re-election. He was sworn in for a second term in January 1973
Topic: Nixon during the scanal
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERNixon made three major speeches on the Watergate scandal during
1973 and 1974.
April 30, 1973- he announced the departure of Dean, Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
August 15, 1973
April 29, 1974- Nixon released partial transcripts of the White House tapes.
Topic: Investigations
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERInitial investigations of Watergate- media, Washington Post, Bob
Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Deep Throat.
Political investigations- February 1973- Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate
scandal. The public hearings of the Committee- evidence of John Dean, Nixon's former White House
Counsel. The Committee uncovered the existence of the secret White House tape recordings-
political and legal battle between the Congress and the President.
1974- the House of Representatives authorized the Judiciary Committee to consider impeachment
proceedings against Nixon.
Topic: Nixon's resignation
, Source: watergate.info - ANSWERThe House Judiciary Committee voted to accept three of four
proposed Articles of Impeachment,
Decision by the Supreme Court to order Nixon to release more White House tapes. 'smoking gun'
tape- revealed that Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up as far back as June 23, 1972.
There were calls for Nixon to resign.
August 8, 1974- Nixon resignation speech. The next day, he sent his resignation letter to the
Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Topic: Causes of Burglaries
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERThe New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers - the
Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post begins publishing the
papers later in the week.
Topic: Burglary
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERThe White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders to plug
leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the
former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
Topic: Burglary
Source: Washington Post - ANSWERFive men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are
arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the
Watergate hotel and office complex. A GOP security aide is one of the Watergate burglars. Former
attorney general John Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the
operation.
Topic: Aftermath of burglary
Source: Washington Post - ANSWERA $25,000 cashier's check,presumably for the Nixon campaign,
wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar. FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-
in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon
reelection effort.
Topic: Aftermath of burglary
Source: Washington Post - ANSWERFormer Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are
convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead
guilty. Nixon's top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General
Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.
100% Correct!!
Topic: Nixon political career
Source: watergate.info - ANSWER1947- House of Representatives.
1952- Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate
Scandal that led to the infamous Checkers Speech.
Vice-President for eight years
lost the 1960 election to John F. Kennedy.
chosen again as the Republican Party's candidate at the 1968 election.
Nixon became the nation's 37th President on January 20, 1969.
He delivered his 'Silent Majority' speech on the Vietnam War, articulating his belief that the bulk of
the American people supported his policies and programs.
Won landslide re-election. He was sworn in for a second term in January 1973
Topic: Nixon during the scanal
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERNixon made three major speeches on the Watergate scandal during
1973 and 1974.
April 30, 1973- he announced the departure of Dean, Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
August 15, 1973
April 29, 1974- Nixon released partial transcripts of the White House tapes.
Topic: Investigations
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERInitial investigations of Watergate- media, Washington Post, Bob
Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Deep Throat.
Political investigations- February 1973- Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate
scandal. The public hearings of the Committee- evidence of John Dean, Nixon's former White House
Counsel. The Committee uncovered the existence of the secret White House tape recordings-
political and legal battle between the Congress and the President.
1974- the House of Representatives authorized the Judiciary Committee to consider impeachment
proceedings against Nixon.
Topic: Nixon's resignation
, Source: watergate.info - ANSWERThe House Judiciary Committee voted to accept three of four
proposed Articles of Impeachment,
Decision by the Supreme Court to order Nixon to release more White House tapes. 'smoking gun'
tape- revealed that Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up as far back as June 23, 1972.
There were calls for Nixon to resign.
August 8, 1974- Nixon resignation speech. The next day, he sent his resignation letter to the
Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Topic: Causes of Burglaries
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERThe New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers - the
Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post begins publishing the
papers later in the week.
Topic: Burglary
Source: watergate.info - ANSWERThe White House "plumbers" unit - named for their orders to plug
leaks in the administration - burglarizes a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the
former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
Topic: Burglary
Source: Washington Post - ANSWERFive men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are
arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the
Watergate hotel and office complex. A GOP security aide is one of the Watergate burglars. Former
attorney general John Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the
operation.
Topic: Aftermath of burglary
Source: Washington Post - ANSWERA $25,000 cashier's check,presumably for the Nixon campaign,
wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar. FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-
in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon
reelection effort.
Topic: Aftermath of burglary
Source: Washington Post - ANSWERFormer Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are
convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead
guilty. Nixon's top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General
Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.
