IP for HIST102

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

In 1972, there was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in the Watergate Office Complex. Thus began a series of events that would shake the public’s confidence in its most visible symbol of American authority and prestige: the presidency.

This is a Three part assignment:

PART ONE: Discuss ONE of the following events surrounding the break-in:

• When did the break-in occur?
• How was Nixon connected to the break-in?
• Which top aides resigned and why?
• When Nixon resigned, who took over as President?

PART TWO: The presence of a White House taping system was discovered.

• Discuss the events surrounding the discovery of the tapes and the issues involved in trying to get the tapes.
• What is the “18 1/2 minutes of silence”?

PART THREE: Include ONE of the following personalities in your discussion and discuss their involvement (see list). You are to incorporate persons frompart three, into your discussions of parts one and two.

• Richard M. Nixon and his resignation
• Gerald Ford’s pardoning of Richard Nixon (not connected with the break-in but important in the context)
• H. R. Haldeman
• John Ehrlichman
• Attorney General Richard Kleindienst
• Archibald Cox
• Howard Hunt
• Chuck Colson
• G. Gordon Liddy
• John Dean
• John Mitchell
• James McCord
• Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
• Mark Felt
• Deep Throat