Watergate really began in 1969 when the White House made an “enemies list”; which was kept of the people whom the president’s men wanted vengeance on. This was done so because President Nixon not only wanted to be re-elected but he wanted to completely dominate his opponent (Kilian 153). This campaign was often involved in unethical “dirty tricks”. False information somehow leaked in to the press, altering of schedules of campaign appearances took place, forged letters, and assembling reports on democratic political candidates about their personal lives. The basic goal of these nasty tricks was to help do away with the strongest candidates from the democratic primaries. The majority of the

In January of 1973 several men were tried before Judge John Sirica. Four of the men arrested the night of the Watergate burglary along Howard Hunt pleaded guilty. James McCord was also tired with conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping (Halsey 332). The United States then ordered an investigation to begin. When Nixon got word of this he met with his top aides to plan responses and prepare for the investigations. The only person that would not corporate was Howard Hunt. He said that if he didn’t receive “hush money” he would then reveal the jobs of the “plumbers”; $75,000 was given to him that night (Kilian 189).

On June 17, 1972 following the Fielaing’s break-in, five men were arrested for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The men were sent there to readjust electronic equipment that they had put in time ago. Four of the men, by the names of Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Virgillo Gonzalez and Eugenie Martinez were all from Miami, Florida. The fifth man was James McCord, who was the security manager for the CRP (Halsey 331). The arrest of these men soon led to the plan of surveillance of political opponents.

In 1971, Nixon created the Special Investigation Unit, known as the “plumbers”; their job was to plug all leaks as a result of the Pentagon papers in the New York Times. The Pentagon papers revealed a pattern of government dishonesty related to Vietnam. Somehow these papers found their way in to the New York Times by Dr. Daniel Ellsberg. The Nixon administration responded by stop

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