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^C^1THE WATERGATE QUIZ
^CBy Jim Tankard
The 32 multiple choice questions of Jim Tankard's THE WATERGATE QUIZ review
your knowledge of this important chapter of American history. We must warn
you, though, that the questions are not easy.
But don't worry if your memory is a bit hazy -- we have a brief outline of
the Watergate scandal here to jog your memory. And besides, making a great
score is not the point. We hope that the outline and the quiz itself will
make you want to read further about the fascinating sequence of events that
led up to Richard Nixon's resignation of the presidency.
A HISTORY LESSON....
When the election results of the 1972 presidential election began pouring
in, there was a great deal of celebration -- among Republicans. Richard M.
Nixon, the Republican incumbent, had won re-election in a landslide victory
over the Democratic nominee, George McGovern.
No one could have known that November night that the destruction of the
Nixon presidency had already been set in motion.
Earlier that year, in June, five men had broken into the national
headquarters of the Democratic Party at the Watergate -- an office/hotel
complex in Washington, D.C. These five were caught and charged with burglary
and wiretapping. Also charged were G. Gordon Liddy, who was the general
counsel for Nixon's re-election committee, and E. Howard Hunt, Jr., a former
White House aide. All of the "Watergate Seven" were found guilty in January
of 1973.
But the story did not end there -- after the trial, one of the Watergate
Seven charged that the White House had attempted to cover up its involvement
in the break-in.
After these charges were made, the Senate formed a special committee to
investigate the Watergate affair. Eventually, several top Nixon aides were
implicated in both the break-in and the cover-up. The President, however,
continued to insist that he had had no knowledge of either the break-in or
attempts to conceal it.
A former White House staff member broke the stalemate between the White
House and the committee when he disclosed that the conversations between Nixon
and his aides had been recorded. The committee then requested that Nixon turn
over the tapes. Only after a court order did the President comply, and then
only partially -- some of the tapes mysteriously turned up missing.
Nixon continued to refuse to supply the missing tapes that might have
confirmed his part in the scandal. Under threat of impeachment, on August 9th,
1974, Richard Nixon became the only president ever to resign the presidency.
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