Watergate Background

To accuse a government official and/or charge with a crime is known as

• perjury

• political espionage

• impeachment

• subpoena

Who were the "plumbers" in the Watergate scandal?

• special investigation team created to stop news leaks about Vietnam War

• people that were investigating Nixon's recordings

• committee assigned to work on getting Nixon re-elected

• people that were fired for investigating the Watergate scandal

Nixon was impeached and removed from office.

• True

• False

How did the Watergate scandal get its name?

• Watergates opening was a metaphor used for the flood of information and the president's inability to stop it

• People broke into Richard Nixon's office at the Watergate aprtment complex to get information about the election

• Bill Watergate was the director of the FBI in charge of investigating Nixon but he was corrupt

• there was a break-in at the Watergate apartments and office complex in D.C.

Five men were arrested when they were caught putting up surveillance equipment in this location:

• D.C. National Convention office building

• Democratic National Committee headquarters

• Republican Committee headquarters

• The Washington Post's office building located at the Watergate complex

To what does the "Saturday Night Massacre" refer?

• Nixon was impeached on a Saturday; unusual that it wasn't on a week day...

• After many refusals to fire people involved with the investigation of the scandal, Nixon started firing many people himself.

• Nixon ordered his attorney general to fire a special prosecutor and attorney general refused to do it; he resigned

• Nixon ordered people to be killed to keep quiet about his illegal activities in office

What did a U.S. District Court judge subpoena, but Nixon claimed executive privilege and refused to turn over?

• surveillance of the break-in at the Watergate building

• transcripts of conversations between Nixon and the directors of the FBI and CIA

• recorded conversations from inside the White House

Attorney General Richardson found evidence of Nixon's involvement in

• political espionage

• illegal wiretapping

• influence peddling

• all of these

What is executive privilege as conceded by the Supreme Court?

• the need for protection of communication between high government officials and their advisors

• the ability for a president to be able to do what he needs to do to enforce the laws of the land

• the right for a president to commit acts that others might consider illegal if done in the name of national security

Issues surrounding the Watergate Scandal did not reach the Supreme Court and were settled out of court.

• True

• False