1. Richard M. Nixon. POTUS entering his last year in office in summer 1973.
2. John Dean. White House counsel who provided important testimony, served time.
3. Chuck Colson. Special counsel to the President, served time.
4. HR “Bob” Haldeman. Crew cut White House Chief of Staff, served time.
5. John Erlichman. Nixon’s chief domestic advisor, served time.
6. John Mitchell. Former AG, head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, served time.
7. G. Gordon Liddy. Former CIA operative, Nixon loyalist, member of the re-election campaign, served time.
8. E. Howard Hunt. Former CIA operative, author of spy novels, member of the re-election campaign, served time.
9. Fred Larue. Campaign financial guy, the one who handed the burglars the money, served time.
10. Maurice Stans. Nixon Cabinet official turned campaign fundraiser, indicted but acquitted.
11. Robert Mardian. Re-election campaign lawyer who was convicted, and then his conviction was overturned.
12. Jeb Stuart Magruder. Kinda cute campaign operative who testified a lot on TV.
13. Alexander Butterfield. White House aide who gave us our “Perry Mason” moment when he told the Watergate committee, on national TV, that Nixon had an Oval Office taping system.
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*Sorry, Bob Mardian, but I only remember your name, not your face.
Most of those names sound familiar to me. I do remember Watergate and all that brought with it. I was in high school, but it was a very big deal It was all very unsettling, but now I find Trump and his minions much more scary.
ReplyDeleteI was only 10, but I remember many of these names. I did not realize at the time the importance of the issue, only that it was bad. Looking back, in hindsight Ford's pardon of Nixon may have brought to us to where we are now - the possibility of having a person winning the presidency while in prison who then pardons himself. End game.
ReplyDeleteI'm shuddering at that thought!
DeleteFascinating list--I admit I don't know a lot of details about Watergate.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit too young to understand any of this. (I turned 2 that summer.) But I know some of those names now. John Dean has certainly made a name for himself on the news pundit circuit.
ReplyDeleteDid you watch the limited series Gaslit? Julia Roberts played Martha Mitchell and Sean Penn played John Mitchell. You won't recognize him! I mention it because it was set during Watergate. That wasn't the sole focus of the series, but it did play into what happened with Mitchell.
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