WATERGATE

WATERGATE – Who’s Who?

Henry Kissinger – Sec. of State under Richard Nixon - Nixon became concerned with leaks of military information, and asked Kissinger to "suggest the names of some of his officials who had access to the secrets being leaked." Their phones were then tapped and conversations monitored.

Dr. Daniel Ellsberg – a former official in the Defense Department, released info to Washington

Post, whichcame to be known as the “Pentagon Papers” – his psychiatrist’s office was broken into

by a covert team formed for White House, called the “Plumbers”.

George McGovern – South Dakota Senator chosen by the Democrats to run for President against

Nixon in 1972 – Lost the election in the greatest landslide in U.S. election history (until 1984)

winning only the State of Massachusetts & the District of Columbia.

Thomas Eagleton – McGovern’s first running mate. Withdrew as a candidate for VP when it was

disclosed that he had been treated for depression with Electric Shock Therapy. He was replaced as

the Vice Presidential candidate by Kennedy brother-in-law Sargent Shriver.

James W. McCord – Leader of the Watergate break-in crew, a security co-ordinator for the

Republican National Committee and the Committee for the Re-election of the President.

McCord was also a former FBI and CIA agent. He was dismissed from his RNC and CREEP

positions the day after the Watergate break-in.

John Dean - The White House legal counsel who warned Nixon of a cancer growing on the

presidency and was dismissed; some revisionist Watergate buffs blame him for the coverup.

John D. Ehrlichman - President Nixon's assistant for domestic affairs - directed the White House

"plumbers" unit - also approved the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg

Charles W. Colson - Known within the Nixon administration as the "evil genius," special counsel

to President Nixon – as part of CREEP he was in charge of “dirty tricks” against Democrats

H.R. "Bob" Haldeman - Nixon's chief of staff - The chief of staff was part of the conversation on the so-called "smoking gun" tape, in which Nixon discussed using the CIA to divert the FBI's Watergate probe

E. Howard Hunt - A sometime White House consultant, CIA agent and mystery novelist and one

of the original seven defendants in the break-in case - a member of the White House "plumbers," the secret team assembled to stop government leaks after defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press. A former CIA operative, Hunt organized the bugging of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate as well as a break-in at the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist

G. Gordon Liddy - former FBI agent who helped plan the Watergate break-in

Jeb Magruder - Nixon's deputy campaign director - As assistant to John Mitchell, director of

Committee to Re-elect the President, Magruder worked most closely with Dean.

John Mitchell - Nixon's former law partner served as attorney general before resigning in 1972 to

head the Committee for the Re-election of the President. The Washington Post linked Mitchell to a

secret campaign fund that paid for the Watergate burglary

Donald Segretti - A former military prosecutor and civil lawyer, Segretti ran a campaign of

political sabotage against the Democrats for Nixon's reelection effort.

Hugh Sloan - The former treasurer of Nixon's reelection campaign, he quit his job at the

Committee for the Re-election of the President less than a month after the burglary

Maurice Stans - served as Secretary of Commerce in the first Nixon Cabinet and finance

chairman for the Committee for the Re-election of the President Stans's fund-raising efforts for

Nixon brought in nearly $60 million for the reelection campaign and ended up financing the

Watergate burglaries and political dirty tricks

Richard Kleindienst - was sworn in as Attorney General just 5 days before the break-in to the

Democrat's Watergate headquarters which eventually forced Nixon's resignation. Early in 1973 as

charges of obstruction of the Watergate scandal came to a head, Kliendienst joined White House

aids H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and White House counsel John Dean in resigning their

offices.

Archibald Cox – The first “Special Prosecutor”named to investigate the Watergate scandal. He was fired on orders from President Nixon in what came to be known as the “Saturday Night Massacre" on Oct. 20, 1973.

Leon Jaworski – The second “Special Prosecutor” in the Watergate case.

Replaced Archibald Cox.

Richard Nixon - The first U.S. president to resign, Nixon sowed the seeds of his own destruction a

week after the break-in when he ordered a cover-up of the burglary. His secret taping system,

installed to help him write his memoirs, preserved evidence that destroyed him. The 37th president

of the United States resigned in disgrace on Aug. 9, 1974 because of public and political pressures

created by the Watergate scandal.

Spiro Agnew -- Nixon's 1st vice president stepped down in a tawdry kickback scandal in October

1973. He pled no contest to income tax evasion and resigned. Agnew felt that Nixon threw him

overboard in an attempt to mollify critics.

Gerald Ford - had been the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives.

He was chosen by Nixon to be Vice-President, following the resignation of

Spiro Agnew in October 1973. President Ford decided to pardon Nixon. He

made a television address on September 8, 1974 to announce the pardon.

Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – Reporters for the Washington Post who broke the story of the break-in and cover-up.

Rose Mary Woods -- Nixon's personal secretary, Woods is best remembered for bizarre testimony about the 18 1/2-minute tape gap. She said she had inadvertently kept her left foot on the pedal of a tape recorder while stretching behind her to answer a telephone call, at the same time mistakenly pushing the "record" button on the machine, and thus erased perhaps five minutes of the taped conversation. Asked to re-enact it in court, Woods reached for an imaginary phone -- and lifted her left foot.