1. How ere the "plumbers" connected to President Nixon?
The plumbers were men who were hired by NIxon during his second term in office as an almost direct result of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers.

2. Who was the judge? Why did he hand out maximum sentences?
John Sirica was the judge he hoped that by sentencing the men to long sentences that they would tell on somebody else that was involved with the Watergate scandal.

3. How were Mitchell and Dean connected to Nixon?
Nixon hired Mitchell to manage his first campaign after he became president he appointed Mitchell as attorney general. In 1972 he resigned and became the head of CREEP.
John Dean was Nixon's counsel.

4. How were Haldeman and Erlichman connected to Nixon?
Haldeman was Chief of Staff
Erlichman was Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs

5. What did the following men tell the Senate about Nixon?

a. Dean
Dean testified against the president.

b. Butterfield
Alexander Butterfied was asked if there was any kind of recording devise in the Oval Office or other rooms in the white house. He said that yes there was a listening recorder.

6. Who was fired or forced to resign in the "Saturday Night Massacre"?
Eliot Richardson (attorney general)
William Ruchelshaus (deputy attorney general)
Archibald Cox


7. Why weren't investigators satisified with the transcripts?
Nixon refused to give the original tapes. At first he refused to give the committee anything. Eventually he decided that he would allow them to see a written transcript of the tapes. However this didn't satisfy the investigators because it had been edited. The transcript also negitivly influenced Nixon's public popularity because Nixon had sweared quite a lot while talking about certain people.

8. What did the tapes reveal?
That Nixon had in fact known about the Watergate brake in much sooner that he had originally said.

9. Why did Vice President Spiro Agnew resign?
Spiro Agnew resigned due to tax evasion. Totally unrelaited to the watergate scandal but it only added more doubt to the legality of te Nixon administration and the US government in general.

10. What did the House Judiciary Committee charge President Nixon with?
obstruction of justice
refusal to comply with the senate

11. How did the Watergate scandal create a constitutional crisis?
One of the main goals of the US constitution and what sets it apart from many other countries is the seperation of power. The founding fathers worked very hard to make sure that now one man or one branch of government gained too much power. Nixon had gained too much power during his term in office and people were starting to see that during the whole watergate scandal.