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The Watergate Affair

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff Updated by an Factmonster Editor on February 21, 2017

Updated by an Factmonster Editor on February 21, 2017

Watergate

The Major Players

Alexander Haig, Nixon's civilian chief of staff (1973—74)
Charles Ruff, Watergate special prosecutor
Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworkski
Senior Sssistant to Archibald Cox James Vorenberg
Edward Levi, former attorney general
James St. Clair, Nixon's Defense Attorney
Richard C. Kleindienst, Nixon's attorney general
John Ehrlichman
Bebe Rebozo, Nixon friend
Maurice H. Stans
John Newton Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection committee
Herman Talmadge, member of the Senate Watergate Committee
Elliot Lee Richardson, Nixon attorney general
Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher
Mary McGrory, journalist
Maurice Hubert Stans, finance chairman for Nixon's reelection campaign
Daniel Ellsberg
Robert Bork
Jack Anderson

Watergate Affair
The Watergate Break-in
The Investigations
Nixon's Resignation and the Aftermath

Presidential Scandals
The Independent Counsel Act
Richard Milhous Nixon
Pentagon Papers
Nixon's Second Presidential Term
Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech
Gerald Ford
George Stanley McGovern
A Short History of Impeachment
Encyclopedia: Impeachment

Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.); chairman
Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.); vice chairman
Edward J. Gurney (R-Fla.)
Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii)
Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M)
Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.)
Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.)

Sources +

See also:

Presidential Scandals