Watergate A Brief History with Documents

by Kutler, Stanley I.

• ISBN13: 9781405188487
• ISBN10: 1405188480
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The second edition of Watergate: A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixon's acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon. Includes transcripts of recently-released Watergate tapes that reveal Nixon's thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, and that deal with the identity of the anonymous source known as 'Deep Throat'. Uses the crisis to explain how American politics and law work and provides an indication of the way the country may handle future crises Provides brief summaries of what happened to various Watergate participants Covers the entire span of time from Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech at the RNC until his pardon in 1974

Author Biography

Stanley I. Kutler is the E. Gordon Fox Professor Emeritus, of American Institutions, History, and Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several books on American history, including Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (1997), which resulted from his successful lawsuit against the National Archives and Nixon that forced the release of the long-suppressed Watergate tapes. He is also the author of The Wars of Watergate (1990).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
The Cast of Characters	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Watergate: A Brief History	p. 5
Richard Nixon: At Work and in His Own Words	p. 9
Acceptance Speech: 1968	p. 9
The Personality of the President	p. 10
The Man on Top	p. 12
The White House Horrors	p. 19
Plumbers and Enemies	p. 19
The Watergate Break-In	p. 31
The Burglary	p. 31
The Role of the President's Campaign Committee	p. 34
What Did the White House Know?	p. 36
The White House Reacts: Private and Public Comment	p. 37
Cover-Up! The White House Responds	p. 41
The "Smoking Gun": Using the CIA	p. 41
The Money Trail	p. 47
"Stonewalling" and Perjury	p. 59
The Conspiracy Unravels; Judge Sirica, the Ellsberg Case, the Senate, and the Special Prosecutor	p. 75
Fatal White House Leaks	p. 75
Sirica and McCord	p. 76
Defections: Dean and Magruder	p. 79
The Ellsberg Case	p. 82
Nixon Responds	p. 87
The President and His Men: Taped Conversations, February-April 1973	p. 90
Haldeman and Ehrlichman Resign	p. 109
The Special Prosecutor	p. 111
The Special Prosecutor: Nixon's Reaction	p. 114
The Special Prosecutor Takes Over	p. 117
Senate Select Committee: John Dean	p. 117
Senate Select Committee: Ehrlichman and Haldeman	p. 122
Senate Select Committee: Revelation of the Tapes	p. 131
The Tapes and the Saturday Night Massacre	p. 135
The Battle for the Tapes	p. 135
The President Retreats	p. 145
October: The Cruelest Month	p. 148
The Saturday Night Massacre	p. 155
The President Succumbs	p. 156
The New Special Prosecutor	p. 158
The 181/2-Minute Tape Gap	p. 163
The Final Agony: Impeachment, Resignation, Pardon	p. 167
Nixon Embattled	p. 167
The Impeachment Inquiry	p. 176
U S. v. Nixon	p. 190
Resignation	p. 198
The Pardon	p. 203
Appendix	p. 207
Watergate Special Prosecution Force Criminal Actions Final Report, 1975	p. 207
Bibliographical Note	p. 219
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