All The President's Men

Exercise #1

Carl Bernstein: Reporter for Washington Post on Watergate Scandal 

Ben Bradlee: Executive editor for the Washington Post

Patrick Buchanan: Assistant to the president 

Archibald Cox: Lawyer for Watergate Scandal

H.R. Haldeman: Chief of the White House staff

E. Howard Hunt: a former CIA agent involved in the buglary

Leon Jaworski: Special Prosecutor in the case  

G. Gordon Liddy: Lawyer for scandal

James McCord: CIA Officer

Bob Woodward: New reported for the Washington Post

Exercise #2: Background 

1) The date is June 17, 1972

2) Five men are about to be caught breaking into the Washington D.C. offices of the Democratic Headquarters located in the Watergate building. 

3) Their purpose for the break in: to bug their offices 

4) A republican, Nixon is President. He was first elected in 1968 and is running for a second term. he wins.

5) Thanks largely to the work of two reporters from the Washington Post newspaper, Nixon's administrations is found to be guilty of: 

   a) unethical and illegal campaign activities 

   b) the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars of unaccounted for donations, and 

   c) a political espionage campaign headed by the Committee to reelect the president  and involving the campaign officials  and the justice department.

By the time it's all over in the summer of 1974 many white house officials and others are charged and convicted of felonies, and do serious jail time, and, face with impeachment, President Nixon resigns.

Vocabulary 

Bugging: concealing a mini microphone in a place to record events.

Canuck Letter: a forged letter to the editor of manchester union leader

CREEP: fundraising organization for president's campaign

cover-up: to conceal evidence

covert operations: plans to conceal an identity

deep background: information used by journalist to enhance their view on subject matter 

GAO: independent nonpartisan agency that works for congress

on the record: anything in communication with journalist may be publicly disclosed 

set up: a scheme

slush fund: reserved money used for illicit purposes

verbatim notes: word for word notes 

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