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Civil Rights Chapter 5 - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights Chapter 5
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Burglary
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Found connections to CREEP which were denied by Mitchell, and then links to the White House
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FBI descovered that Hunt and Liddy (W.H.Ps) had broke in as well as wider campaign which had been funded by CREEP, so indirectly with privet donations
The 'Watergate Scandal'
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19 March - Letter from James McCord (burglar + CoSecutary of CREEP) showed White house told defendants to lie in trial
October 1973 - Nixon forced to release edited transcripts of all convosations inside the oval office
8 January 1973 - Trial of burglars and Hunt/Liddy began; five pleaded guilty, the other two were found guilty; due to be sentenced on 23 March
July 1974 - Supreme Court order full release of tapes; show Nixon ordered cover up of break up. Nixon resigns 9 August 1974
Initially no one cared to dig deeper that the five men who broke in and Hunt and Liddy - President Easily clamed that no one else had been involved - won 72
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