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Watergate Scandal: White House
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John Dean, the President's former counsel had been fired on April 30 and was now busily leaking stories all over Washington about the Watergate scandal. Some of them hinted that the President was involved in the cover-up. Dean seemed to have some record of White House misdeeds; he told Judge John Sirica that he had removed certain documents from the White House to protect them from "illegitimate destruction". Dean had put them in a safe-deposit box and given the keys to the judge. The New York Times... citing anonymous informers, said that one of its sources "suggested that Mr. Dean may have tape-recorded some of his White House conversations".
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Soon after the Watergate scandal came to light, investigators uncovered a related group of illegal activities: Since 1971 a White House group called the “plumbers” had been doing whatever was necessary to stop leaks to the press. A grand jury indicted Ehrlichman, White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, and others for organizing a break-in and burglary in 1971 of a psychiatrist’s office to obtain damaging material against Daniel Ellsberg, who had publicized classified documents on U.S. activities during the Vietnam War (1959-1973) called the Pentagon Papers.
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Political investigations began in February 1973 when the Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee were sensational, including the evidence of John Dean, Nixon's former White House Counsel. The Committee ... uncovered the existence of the secret White House tape recordings, sparking a major political and legal battle between the Congress and the President.
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Following Nixon's re-election, the U.S. Senate began a formal inquiry of the Watergate scandal. The previous CIA and FBI investigations failed to implicate the Office of the President because none of the persons questioned mentioned the involvement of the White House in CREEP operations. In March 1973, Hunt asked for a significant sun of "hush money" to refrain from going to the FBI or Senate committee with information about the scandal. He received $75,000.
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Numerous theories have persisted in claiming deeper significance to the Watergate scandal than what is commonly acknowledged by media and historians. In the book "The Ends of Power", President Richard Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman claimed that the term 'Bay of Pigs' was used by Nixon as a coded reference to the Kennedy Assassination in White House conversation recorded on the Watergate tapes.[2]
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Washington -- This week's revelation about the identity of the secret source known as Deep Throat has sparked renewed interest in the Watergate scandal, which toppled President Richard Nixon from power in 1974. onfirmation of former FBI agent Mark Felt as Deep Throat solved one of the enduring mysteries of the Watergate era. Deep Throat was the anonymous government source cited by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they methodically uncovered a scandal about White House involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington.John O'Connor is a lawyer and Felt family friend who wrote the article in Vanity Fair magazine that revealed Mark Felt as Deep Throat.
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