THE WATER GATE SCANDAL RECORDINGS Flashcards
What happened during the investigation led by the Senate Committee(Sam Ervin)?
It had been found that Nixon had been recording🔉🎥 all of his conversations 🗣️and phone calls📞 in his office
What did the Committee try to do in regards to the recordings?
They wanted access to the recordings
What did Nixon do regarding the recordings?
He refused to give them over to the Committee on grounds of NATIONAL SECURITY
What did Nixon release instead of the recordings?
he released edited transcripts of the recordings, then he released more unedited transcripts
What was different about the second transcripts he released?
They were unedited except for the bad language which was replaced by ‘EXPLETIVE DELETED’
What was the most shocking thing about the transcript?
The public were SHOCKED by the EXTENT of the swearing used by the President and how he spoke about minorities (JEWS/Italians)
What was the impact from the recordings?
Despite 18 minutes of some tapes being wiped, their was the ‘smoking gun’ released in one recording that proved Nixon’s abuse of power
What did the smoking gun reveal?
A recording from 1972,Nixon tried to stop the FBI investigation on the break in proving that Nixon had been actively trying to cover up WG from the beginning
When did Nixon resign?
AUGUST 1974, before he could be impeached
What led the Committee to consider impeaching Nixon?
some recordings had been cut
