WATERGATE AND THE IMPEACHMENT OF RICHARD NIXON

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WATERGATE AND THE IMPEACHMENT OF RICHARD NIXON

• What happened? (See reading from Present Tense).
  Release of information to the press on Vietnam
  and Cambodia, Pentagon Papers Nixon created the
  Plumbers unit to plug leaks wiretapped reporters
  and others broke into Daniel Ellsbergs
  psychiatrists office.
• Enemies list and using IRS to harass them.
• Dirty tricks Edmund Muskie, quote
  misattributed to him and other such things
  breaking and entering to get information by
  bugging the offices. Burglars get caught in
  Watergate.

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WATERGATE AND THE IMPEACHMENT OF NIXON

• Impeachment Obstruction of Justice Abuse of
  Power Contempt of Congress
• How was Watergate a threat to American way of
  life? Democratic processes, rights. Equality
  before the law.
• What does Watergate say about the system? Checks
  and balances, separation of powers? Did it work?
• Why was Watergate a crisis?
• What does it show about the importance of a free
  press? Which parts of the Constitution were
  challenged, threatened?