Unformatted text preview: Abolished Office of Economic Opportunity SALT I Treaty Opposed school busing 2. 1. Terms • H. R. Haldeman , White House chief of staff • John Ehrlichman , chief domestic adviser • John Mitchell , Nixon’s former attorney general • Committee to Reelect the President break into Democratic headquarters • Watergate scandal is administration attempt to cover up break-in destroy documents, try to stop investigation, buy burglars’ silence • Judge John Sirica presides burglars’ trial, thinks did not act alone • Saturday Night Massacre : Richardson resigns; deputy refuses, fired Cox’s replacement, Leon Jaworski, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns, revealed he accepted bribes • House Judiciary Committee approves 3 articles of impeachment : formal accusation of wrongdoing while in office -charges: obstruction of justice, abuse of power, contempt of Congress...
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- Spring '11
- MrShoop
- Richard Nixon, President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, Family Assistance Plan
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