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By Reginald Hart Maryland NewslineFriday, Dec. 13, 2002
Special Report Main Page Main Story: Woodward and Bernstein: Trust Key to Reporting (Oct. 16, 2002) Background Story: Nixon tapes to be offered at National Archives II (Dec. 12, 2001) Web Links: President Nixon's biography from the White House The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace President Nixon's Aug. 9, 1974, letter of resignation on The National Archives site FBI Freedom of Information Act Watergate files Nearly 1,800 hours of Nixon White House tapes are available for reproduction. Audio Links: (from History and Politics OUT LOUD) The "Smoking Gun" tape, which established Nixon's involvement in Watergate (June 23, 1972) The president discusses media coverage of the break-in. (Sept. 15, 1972) Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson speak on the bugging of George McGovern. (Jan. 8, 1973) Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman tells Nixon he will survive. Watergate (March 20, 1973)
Main Story:
Woodward and Bernstein: Trust Key to Reporting (Oct. 16, 2002)
Background Story:
Nixon tapes to be offered at National Archives II (Dec. 12, 2001) Web Links:
Web Links:
President Nixon's biography from the White House The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace President Nixon's Aug. 9, 1974, letter of resignation on The National Archives site FBI Freedom of Information Act Watergate files Nearly 1,800 hours of Nixon White House tapes are available for reproduction. Audio Links: (from History and Politics OUT LOUD) The "Smoking Gun" tape, which established Nixon's involvement in Watergate (June 23, 1972) The president discusses media coverage of the break-in. (Sept. 15, 1972) Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson speak on the bugging of George McGovern. (Jan. 8, 1973) Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman tells Nixon he will survive. Watergate (March 20, 1973)
The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace
President Nixon's Aug. 9, 1974, letter of resignation on The National Archives site
FBI Freedom of Information Act Watergate files
Nearly 1,800 hours of Nixon White House tapes are available for reproduction. Audio Links: (from History and Politics OUT LOUD) The "Smoking Gun" tape, which established Nixon's involvement in Watergate (June 23, 1972) The president discusses media coverage of the break-in. (Sept. 15, 1972) Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson speak on the bugging of George McGovern. (Jan. 8, 1973) Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman tells Nixon he will survive. Watergate (March 20, 1973)
Audio Links: (from History and Politics OUT LOUD)
The "Smoking Gun" tape, which established Nixon's involvement in Watergate (June 23, 1972) The president discusses media coverage of the break-in. (Sept. 15, 1972) Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson speak on the bugging of George McGovern. (Jan. 8, 1973) Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman tells Nixon he will survive. Watergate (March 20, 1973)
The president discusses media coverage of the break-in. (Sept. 15, 1972)
Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson speak on the bugging of George McGovern. (Jan. 8, 1973)
Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman tells Nixon he will survive. Watergate (March 20, 1973)
1. Which member of President Nixon's inner circle, known as the "evil genius," would go on to become a born-again Christian?
E. Howard Hunt John Dean Charles Colson Claude S. Brinegar
2. The House of Representatives voted 410-4 in February 1974 to authorize its Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings on Richard Nixon. But Nixon resigned before an impeachment could be carried out. Which U.S. president came to within one vote of getting impeached?
Bill Clinton James K. Polk Millard Fillmore Andrew Johnson
3. Who said "our long national nightmare is over"?
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Henry Kissinger H.R. Haldeman
4. What bad habits of Deep Throat were alluded to in "All the President's Men"?
cigarette smoking and Scotch drinking aggressive nail biting teeth grinding knuckle cracking
5. Who was not on Nixon's "enemy" or "political opponents'" lists?
Joe Namath Larry Higby Paul Newman John Conyers
6. Who was the security guard who discovered the five intruders at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment and office complex?
Pat Garrett Richard Jewel J. Edgar Hoover Frank Wills
7. What was the job of Nixon's "plumbers"?
to stop news leaks to keep White House bathrooms in order to reelect the President to stamp out illegal campaign contributions
8. Who has been the chief proponent of a conspiracy theory that the Watergate break-in was really an attempt to cover up a call-ring?
Matthew Rothschild G. Gordon Liddy A.J. Wollsten-Smith E. Howard Hunt
9. Which future New York senator was a counsel brought on by the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate?
Daniel Patrick Monynihan Fred Thompson Charles Schumer Hillary Rodham Clinton
10. Who confessed that they may have been responsible for some of the 18.5-minute gap in the famous June 20, 1972, White House recording?
Alexander M. Haig Rose Mary Woods H.R. Haldeman Stephen Bull
Special report graphic by Reginald Hart
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