Watergate: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Stanley I. Kutler

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The second edition of Watergate: A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon.Includes transcripts of recently-released Watergate tapes that reveal Nixon’s thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, and that deal with the identity of the anonymous source known as ‘Deep Throat’.Uses the crisis to explain how American politics and law work and provides an indication of the way the country may handle future crisesProvides brief summaries of what happened to various Watergate participantsCovers the entire span of time from Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech at the RNC until his pardon in 1974

✦ Table of Contents

Watergate......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
The Cast of Characters......Page 10
Introduction......Page 15
Watergate: A Brief History......Page 19
Acceptance Speech: 1968......Page 23
The Personality of the President......Page 24
The Man on Top......Page 26
Plumbers and Enemies......Page 33
The Burglary......Page 45
The Role of the President’s Campaign Committee......Page 48
What Did the White House Know?......Page 50
The White House Reacts: Private and Public Comment......Page 51
The “Smoking Gun”: Using the CIA......Page 55
The Money Trail......Page 61
“Stonewalling” and Perjury......Page 73
Fatal White House Leaks......Page 89
Sirica and McCord......Page 90
Defections: Dean and Magruder......Page 93
The Ellsberg Case......Page 96
Nixon Responds......Page 101
The President and His Men: Taped Conversations, February–April 1973......Page 104
Haldeman and Ehrlichman Resign......Page 123
The Special Prosecutor......Page 125
The Special Prosecutor: Nixon’s Reaction......Page 128
Senate Select Committee: John Dean......Page 131
Senate Select Committee: Ehrlichman and Haldeman......Page 136
Senate Select Committee: Revelation of the Tapes......Page 145
The Battle for the Tapes......Page 149
The President Retreats......Page 159
October: The Cruelest Month......Page 162
The Saturday Night Massacre......Page 169
The President Succumbs......Page 170
The New Special Prosecutor......Page 172
The 18½-Minute Tape Gap......Page 177
Nixon Embattled......Page 181
The Impeachment Inquiry......Page 190
U.S. v. Nixon......Page 204
Resignation......Page 212
The Pardon......Page 217
Watergate Special Prosecution Force Criminal Actions Final Report, 1975......Page 221
Bibliographical Note......Page 233