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Watergate: Watergate Trial
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James Joseph Bierbower, 81, a well-known Washington lawyer who represented Nixon campaign aide Jeb Stuart Magruder during the Watergate trials and EPA official Rita Lavelle during a Superfund inquiry, dies at Charlotte Hall Nursing Home in St. Mary's County. Post Story
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The Watergate Trial conversations, released on May 28, 1980, constitute twelve and one-half hours (12½) of excerpted Nixon White House tape conversations. These conversation segments were played in open court in U.S. v Mitchell, et al. and U.S. v. Connally in 1974.
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Unlike with some other modules, this issue should not pose a problem here: any good survey course will cover Watergate and its subsequent effects. That said, one possible way of introducing this topic--and making it more historically grounded, always a difficult matter with relatively recent events--is by viewing Watergate through the framework of past presidential scandals or impeachments. For those interested in the history of scandal, Teapot Dome represents the best place to start: like Watergate, it involved corruption in high government office. The only background for presidential impeachment comes from the impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson, which, if not covered earlier in a course, can easily be summarized now. Both of these earlier events raise an obvious question with which to start discussion, namely, what, if anything, distinguished Watergate from its predecessors?
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On January 28, 1974, Nixon campaign aide Herbert Porter pleaded guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI during the early stages of the Watergate investigation. On February 25, 1974, Nixon's personal lawyer Herbert Kalmbach pleaded guilty to two charges of illegal election-campaign activities. Other charges were dropped in return for Kalmbach's cooperation in the forthcoming Watergate trials.
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