who were the watergate burglars?
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cubans hired by G Gordan Liddy who was hired by John Erlichman and John Dean who were personal advisors to Nixon and the money was a slush fund raised by the young republicans and the breakin was at the watergate buildings offices of the democratic party headquarters
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I suppose the first closest thing to Watergate (i.e. a REAL "-Gate", if you like) was Reagan's Iran-gate, "featuring/starring" Oliver North as the fall guy, etc. :-)
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I think that more than political, it caused moral  problems.  I think that Watergate was one of the first events that caused the American people to see a lack of integrity in their leaders, and start to realize that even those we look up to are not always the good politicians and people we may have assumed them to be. \n\nI think that doubt has overflowed into mainstream society.  I think that Watergate, combined with Clinton's sex scandals and 9/11 have made us all very untrusting, witholding people.  And sadly, maybe that's for the better.
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It's a common misconception that he was behind the break-in and attempted bugging. There is no proof he knew about this scheme. What he was accused of was trying to cover up the involvement of people connected with the White House to the break-in, by trying to get the CIA to ask the FBI not to investigate in certain areas. This was on the famous 'smoking gun' tape.
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Cassandra Chandler\n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/06/usat-fbi.htm
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Damn politicians/crooks
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They remember when the Post told lies about Nixon and Watergate.   What?  They weren't lies?   Well dam!
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What?????\n\nGraverobbers are people who rob graves....as in, the dead.  Not the living.  And they actually have to steal to be robbers you know.\n\nCraving the belongings of the living is totally the opposite.
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the president was blamed for all of it.  'dirty tricks' got way out of hand when watergate happened.
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Richard Nixon, his White House staff and the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP!).
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No issues.Ford was not elected and pardoned elected Nixon.Carter was running for elections and had nothing to do with watergate.
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Nixon was not actually indicted in the criminal case arising from the break in at the Watergate.  7 men were tried for conspiracy to defraud the US and obstruct justice, wiretapping, and burglary.  All 7 men were part of Nixon's reelection committee.  After being convicted, one of the men told the judge that the Watergate break in and its cover-up were a massive conspiracy and that the defendant lied at the urging of the White House.  In order to investigate these allegations, the prosecutor moved for a "subpoena duces tecum" ordering Nixon to give the court tapes, memos and other papers relating to the incident.  Nixon claimed that he didn't have to give over the materials because they were protected by "executive privilege."  And things went really downhill from there.\nBasically, the most important witnesses were the 7 criminal defendants who were part of the conspiracy and knew that the White House ordered the break in and the cover up.  The tapes were just very dramatic proof of their story.
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Actually, Nixon didn't "send his henchmen" in, someone lower in the chain of command of the Committee to Reelect the President (Nixon) in 1972 did.  \n\nThe Democratic National Committee headquarters were in the Watergate Hotel where the breakin occurred in an attempt to spy on the DNC.  Nixon found out about it well after the fact and, not having "sent" anyone to do it, wasn't pleased that it happened.\n\nNixon's problems stemmed from the attempt to cover up the fact that his people did it after he found out about it, not that he had anything to do with the actual break in.\n\n"Watergate" was an umbrella name for a series of events in addition to the break in that were discovered in the investigation. . the "Dirty Tricks Squad" the Committee to Reelect had, the slush fund the committee maintained from off the books cash contributions, and other things.
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It was when Nixon and his boys tried to cover up their involvement in a brake in at the democratic national headquarters located in the Watergate building in Washington D. C.
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Oliver Postgate\n\nThanks just had a trawl down memory lane, Bagpuss, the Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the nog\n\nFabulous thanks
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon\n\nTons of info easy to follow headings make it easy to find what you are looking for.
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We had lots of animosity toward Johnson and Nixon, mainly because of Vietnam.  I remember marching in the streets chanting "Hey Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"  But we liked LBJ because of his domestic policies.\n\nOf course, Watergate opened our eyes to how corrupt politics can be.  \n\nBut in my experience, no president has incurred so much ire--from both sides of the political spectrum.