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Pentagon Papers Watergate burglaries Watergate tapes Saturday Night Massacre United States v. Nixon New York Times Co. v. United States
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Ben Bagdikian Carl Bernstein Archibald Cox John Dean Deep Throat Daniel Ellsberg W. Mark Felt E. Howard Hunt Egil Krogh G. Gordon Liddy Angelo Lano John N. Mitchell Richard Nixon John Sirica Watergate Seven Bob Woodward
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CREEP White House Plumbers Senate Watergate Committee

The Watergate Seven were advisors and aides to United States President Richard M. Nixon who were indicted by a grand jury on March 1, 1974 for their role in the Watergate scandal. The grand jury also named Nixon an unindicted co-conspirator. The indictments marked the first time in U.S. history that a president was so named.

The seven indicted were:

John N. Mitchell - former United States Attorney General and director of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 election campaigns; faced a maximum of 30 years in prison and $42,000 in fines; on February 21, 1975, Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison, which was later reduced to one to four years; Mitchell actually served 19 months.
H. R. Haldeman - White House chief of staff, considered the second most powerful man in the government during Nixon's first term; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $16,000 in fines; in 1975, he was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice and received an 18-month prison sentence.
John Ehrlichman, former assistant to Nixon in charge of domestic affairs; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $40,000 in fines. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges; he served 18 months in prison.
Charles Colson - former White House counsel specializing in political affairs; pleaded nolo contendere on June 3, 1974 to one charge of obstruction of justice; he was sentenced to 1 to 3 years of prison and fined $5,000; Colson served seven months.
Gordon C. Strachan - White House aide to Haldeman; faced a maximum of 15 years in prison and $20,000 in fines. Charges against him were dropped before trial.
Robert Mardian - aide to Mitchell and counsel to the Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972; faced 5 years in prison and $5,000 in fines. His conviction was overturned on appeal.
Kenneth Parkinson - counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President; faced 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. He was acquitted at trial.

Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which began with the arrest of five men who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., office/apartment complex and hotel called the Watergate on June 17, 1972.
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Timeline of the Watergate scandal —Regarding attempts by the sitting U.S. President to discredit an anti-war whistleblower of official capacity, and upon exposure of related improprieties, to use the powers of office to silence political and legal opposition.
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The "Pentagon Papers" is the popular term for a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the U.S. government concerning the Vietnam War.
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The Watergate tapes, also known as the Nixon tapes, are a collection of recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and various White House staff members, made on the White House taping system and White House DictaBelts.
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United States v. Nixon

Supreme Court of the United States
Argued July 8, 1974
Decided July 24, 1974

Full case name: United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon, President of the United States, et al.

Citations: 418 U.S. 683 ; 94 S.
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New York Times Co. v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States
Argued June 26, 1971
Decided June 30, 1971

Full case name: New York Times Co. v. United States,

Citations: 403 U.S. 713
Subsequent history: 444 F.
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Ben Haig Bagdikian (born 1920, Maraş, Ottoman Empire; now in Turkey) is an American educator and journalist of Armenian descent. Bagdikian has made journalism his profession since 1941.
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Carl Bernstein (pronounced BERN-steen, IPA: /ˈbɜrnstiːn/) (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as a reporter for The Washington Post
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Archibald Cox, Jr., (May 12, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy, and later became best known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal.
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John Wesley Dean III (b. October 14, 1938) was White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. As White House Counsel, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover
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Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to Deputy Director of the FBI William Mark Felt, Sr., who was the secret source who leaked information about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration during the first Watergate break-in and subsequent events that came to be
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Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers,
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W. Mark Felt
Born: July 17 1913 (age 94)
Twin Falls, Idaho, U.S.A.
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Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G.
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George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Richard Nixon's Presidency. Along with E.
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Angelo J. Lano was an American field agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington DC, notable for his work heading the investigation of, and appearing as a witness for, the Watergate scandal surrounding President Richard M Nixon.
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John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned. He also served as campaign director for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which engineered the Watergate
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John Joseph Sirica (March 19 1904 – August 14 1992) was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role as the chief judge presiding over the Watergate Scandal.
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Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with his co-employee Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President
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The Committee to Re-elect the President, often abbreviated to CRP or CREEP, was a Nixon White House fundraising organization. This organization was found to have employed money laundering and slush funds. It was also involved in the Watergate Scandal.
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The White House Plumbers or simply the Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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Senate Watergate Committee was a special committee convened by the United States Senate to investigate the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal after it was learned that the Watergate burglars had been directed to break into and wiretap the headquarters of the
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