Watergate Scandal
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- Created on: 10-02-15 20:33
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- Watergate Scandal
- The Committee to Re-elect the President, abbreviated as CRP, later nicknamed CREEP, was a fund-raising organization for President Nixon's 1972 election campaign
- "Dirty Tricks"
- break-in to Nixon critic Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, the FBI investigation of CBS reporter Daniel Schorr, and plans by G. Gordon Liddy to have newspaper columnist Jack Anderson assassinated.
- CRP funds amounting to $500,000 were used to pay lawyer's fees for the five Watergate burglars. When discovered, this linked the crime back to the White House, igniting a huge political scandal.
- June 17th 1972 security guard called police after finding tape on several door locks
- Caught five men in office of Democratic National Comitty
- Wire-tap phones and steal secret documents
- All connected to the re-elect president comity
- Arrested and charged for attempted bulgary and attempting to bug phone lines
- Each burglar had thousands of pounds in their pocket
- Arrested and charged for attempted bulgary and attempting to bug phone lines
- All connected to the re-elect president comity
- Wire-tap phones and steal secret documents
- Caught five men in office of Democratic National Comitty
- Nixton tried to cover it up,"hush money" to pay FBI to stop investigating crime,destroyed evidence and fired uncooperative staff.
- Nixton White House Tspes
- system was made public during the televised testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield.
- Showed evidence of Nixtons envolvement in Watergate scandal
- system was made public during the televised testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield.
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