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Watergate is, indeed, a deviation from past practice, not so much in scale or in principle as in the choice of targets. The targets now include the rich and respectable, spokesmen for official ideology, men who are expected to share power, to design social policy, and to mold popular opinion. Such people are not fair game for persecution at the hands of the state.
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Aside from the original Watergate Burglars, the top staff of Nixon went to jail. Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became President. President Ford quickly found that he was spending way to much time on Watergate and Nixon after he took office. There was much talk of bringing criminal charges upon President Nixon. Ford determined that it was best for the nation to issue a full pardon for President Nixon. Below is a photo of President Ford announcing the Pardon to the public on nationwide television.
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In John Ehrlichman's documentary "Eye of the Storm", the fact surfaces that the first working day after the Watergate Break-in (June 19, 1972), John Dean took charge of the situation. This is according to the accounts given by Ehrlichman, Dean, G. Gordon Liddy, Chuck Colson, Gordon Strachan and Robert Bennett. In addition, Dean admits under oath that he deliberately withheld key information from the White House. According to Ehrlichman, Dean "kept the information to himself — didn't inform those of us in the White House who had some responsibility for the matter and we adopted a line that nobody in the White House was involved — which didn't happen to be true."
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Sometimes called simply Watergate, most historians note that there actually was no scandal at all and Watergate was simply a fictional short story written as a joke by Nixon's dog Checkers. The story encompassed a ficticous incident involving a ficticious covert White House Special Investigations Unit known as White House Plumbers. The story involves a plot centered around Nixon ordering the Plumbers to break into the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel in search of the Holy Grail which was believed to be in Democrat posession. The rest of the story is uneventful but needless to say, the Democrats led by Cindy Sheehan attempt to bring down the Nixon administration. But fortunetly the scandal never happened in real life and Nixon served his full term in the Presidency.
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On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate Complex, noticed tape covering the locks on several doors in the complex. He called the police and within minutes, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) office.[10] The five men were Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez and Frank Sturgis. The five were charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communications. On September 15, a grand jury indicted them and two other men for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws. The two others were E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and Gordon Liddy.[1] The target of the break-in at the DNC was the offices of Larry O'Brien, the Chairman of the DNC.
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See the Watergate scandal develop through the cover pages of TIME magazine. "Richard Nixon has been on the cover of TIME more times than anyone, and his involvement in the Watergate scandal was a big reason why." In 1972 Richard Nixon shared TIME's Man of the Year honor with Henry Kissinger. Although the Watergate break-in had already occurred, its effects had not yet reverberated through the White House. The following year, TIME bestowed Man of Year upon John Joseph Sirica, the federal judge who presided over the Watergate investigation. Some of the archived articles require a fee, but there are enough free resources here to make the site worth visiting.
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