- Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, and the thirty-sixth Vice President of the United States in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). During the Second World War, he served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific, before being elected to the Congress, and later serving as Vice President. After an unsuccessful presidential run in 1960, Nixon was elected in 1968. - John Dean
John Wesley Dean III (b. October 14, 1938) was White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. As White House Counsel, he became deeply involved in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover up, even referred to as "master manipulator of the cover up" by the FBI. He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of Watergate, and went on to become a key witness for the prosecution, … - G. Gordon Liddy
George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House Plumbers unit. Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972. The subsequent cover-up of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Liddy later became an American radio talk show host, actor and political strategist. - Charles Colson
Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (born October 16, 1931) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the Watergate Seven, jailed for Watergate-related charges. His later life has been spent working with his non-profit organization devoted to prison ministry called Prison Fellowship. Colson is also a public speaker and author. He is founder and chairman of the Wilberforce Forum, which is the "Christian worldview thinking, teaching, … - Daniel Ellsberg
In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, then a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House. He worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S Decision-making in Vietnam. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study of Vietnam for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and gave a copy to The New York Times. - Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder (born November 5, 1934, New York City) was the second official in the administration of President Richard Nixon (the first was Fred LaRue) to plead guilty to charges of involvement in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal. - John Ehrlichman
John Daniel Ehrlichman (March 20, 1925 - February 14, 1999) was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon and a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and in the ensuing Watergate scandal for which he was convicted of criminal activities. He served a year and a half in prison for his crimes. - H. R. Haldeman
Harry Robbins Haldeman (publicly known as H. R. Haldeman, and informally as Bob Haldeman) (October 27, 1926 - November 12, 1993) was a U.S. political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and for his role in events leading to the Watergate burglaries and the Watergate scandal - for which he was convicted of criminal activity. He was imprisoned for 18 months for his crimes. - Henry A. Kissinger
Newly declassified State Department documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking U.S. officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the U.S. Congress cut military aid. - W. Mark Felt
William Mark Felt, Sr. (born August 17 1913) is a former agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005, to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat". Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's Washington headquarters. - Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the 38th President (1974–1977), and 40th Vice President (1973–1974) of the United States. Ford was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. Upon succession to the presidency, Ford became the only person to hold that office without having been elected either President or Vice President. - John Conyers
John Conyers, Jr. (born May 16, 1929) is a U.S. Congressman representing Michigan's 14th congressional district, which includes all of Highland Park and Hamtramck, as well as parts of Detroit and Dearborn. A Democrat, he has served since 1965 (the district was numbered as the 1st District until 1993). In January 2007, Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the 110th United States Congress. - William Ruckelshaus
William Doyle Ruckelshaus (born July 24, 1932) is an attorney and civil servant in the United States. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Ruckleshaus served as the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970, was subsequently acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. - Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire". - Archibald Cox
Archibald Cox, Jr., (May 12, 1912 - May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy, and later became best known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. - Cord Meyer
Cord Meyer, Jr. was an American CIA official. - Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television. - Leonard Garment
Leonard Garment (born May 11 1924, Brooklyn, USA) was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. A noted attorney, he is the author of the 2000 book "In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time", which supported the theory that Deep Throat was John Sears. Before Deep Throat's identity was revealed in 2005 as being former FBI Acting Associate Director W. Mark Felt, … - James W. McCord Jr.
James W. McCord, Jr. (b. 1924) was the electronics expert involved in the Watergate first break-in and one of the first men convicted in the Watergate scandal. McCord led the June 17, 1972 early-morning burglary of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C., and was found guilty of six charges. He later wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge John Sirica stating that his plea and testimony, … - Egil Krogh
Egil “Bud” Krogh, Jr. is a lawyer who came to prominence as a Nixon Administration official who went to prison for his role in the what would be known as the Watergate scandals. Krogh was raised in Bellevue, Washington; his father was a Norwegian immigrant. After his service in the U.S. Navy, he went to law school in 1968. He went to work at Hullin, Ehrlichman, Roberts and Hodge, the Seattle law firm of family friend John Ehrlichman, … - Richard Helms
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973. He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities. In 1977, he was sentenced to the maximum fine and received a suspended two-year prison sentence. Despite this, Helms remained a revered figure in the intelligence profession. - L. Patrick Gray
Louis Patrick Gray III was acting director of the FBI from 1972-73. Gray was nominated as permanent director by Richard Nixon in 1973 but his nomination was withdrawn after he admitted to destroying documents given to him by White House counsel, John Dean. His deputy director W. Mark Felt admitted in 2005 to being Deep Throat, the famous source of leaks to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. - John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 - November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned. He also served as campaign director for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which engineered the Watergate first break-in and employed Watergate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. in a "security" capacity. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on Long Island in New York. - Donald Segretti
Donald H. Segretti (born September 17, 1941 in San Marino, California) was a political operative for the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon) during the 1970s. Segretti ran a campaign of dirty tricks (which he dubbed 'ratfucking') against the Democrats. His actions were part of the larger Watergate Scandal. In 1974, Segretti pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal (in fact, forged) campaign literature and was sentenced to prison. - Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (born December 2, 1924) is a former Four-Star General in the U.S. Army who served as the U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. In 1973 Haig served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the number two ranking officer in the Army. From 1974-79, Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), … - Howard Baker
Howard Henry Baker, Jr. (born November 15, 1925) is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan. Known in Washington, D.C. as the "Great Conciliator," Baker is often regarded as one of the most successful Senators in terms of brokering compromises, enacting legislation, and maintaining civility. - Fred Larue
Frederick Cheney LaRue, usually known as Fred LaRue, (b. October 11, 1928, Athens, Texas - d. July 24, 2004, Biloxi, Mississippi) was a shadowy presidential aide in the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon who served time in prison for his role in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal and cover-up. LaRue had no rank, title, salary or even listing in the White House directory. - Ron Ziegler
Ronald Louis Ziegler (May 12, 1939 - February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary during United States President Richard Nixon's administration, from 1969-1974, and Assistant to the President in 1974. Ziegler was born to Louis Daniel Ziegler, a production manager, and Ruby Parsons, in Covington, Kentucky. He was raised Presbyterian and graduated from Dixie Heights High School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. - Maurice Stans
Maurice Hubert Stans (March 22, 1908 - April 14, 1998) was the finance chairman for the Committee to Re-elect the President, working for the re-election of Richard Nixon. He was a peripheral figure in the ensuing Watergate Scandal. Money that he raised for the campaign was clearly used to finanace some of the illegal Watergate activities. However, Stans always maintained, and it has not been proven to the contrary, that he had no knowledge of the various Watergate crimes. - Robert Mardian
Robert Charles Mardian was a former United States Republican party official who served in the administration of Richard Nixon, but was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations. His conviction for conspiracy was overturned because of procedural unfairness and he was not subsequently retried. - Morton Halperin
Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. - John Sirica
Judge John Joseph Sirica was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role as the chief judge presiding over the Watergate Scandal. He rose to national prominence during the Watergate scandal when he demanded that President Richard Nixon turn over his recordings of White House conversations. Sirica's involvement in the case began when he presided over the trial of the Watergate burglars. - Elliot Richardson
Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 - December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, having refused an order from Nixon to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. As of 2006, Richardson is the only individual to serve in four Cabinet-level positions within the United States government: Secretary of Health, Education, … - Frank Wills
Frank Wills was the security guard who uncovered the break-in that led to the Watergate scandal. In June 1972, Wills was working as a private security guard at the Watergate office building, the location of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. On the night of June 17, he noticed a piece of duct tape on one of the door locks when he was making his rounds. He removed it, and continued on his patrol. One of the five burglars - Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, … - Sam Ervin
Samuel James Ervin Jr. was a Democratic United States Senator from North Carolina from 1954 until 1974. He was a native of Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. - Dwight Chapin
Dwight L. Chapin (born December 2, 1940) was Deputy Assistant to the President Richard M. Nixon. Chapin was born in Wichita, Kansas. He got his first experience in California politics in 1958 at the American Legion's Boys State summer program, where he was elected the head of the Tory Party. His alter ego, the Whig Party leader, was Stacy Keach, who went into acting as a career. He studied at the University of Southern California, graduating in 1963. - Robert Bork
Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as Solicitor General, acting Attorney General, and circuit judge for United States Court of Appeals. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but he was not confirmed by the Senate. Currently, Bork is a lawyer, law professor, best-selling author, … - Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr, NPR Biography Senior News Analyst - Rose Mary Woods
Rose Mary Woods was Richard Nixon's secretary. When Nixon, then a young California Senator, needed a secretary, he had an agency send one over; it was Woods. The two clicked, and from 1951 through the Watergate scandal and until the end of his political career, Woods served as Nixon's secretary. Before H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman became the operators of the presidential campaign, Miss Woods was Nixon's gatekeeper. - Leon Jaworski
Leon Jaworski (September 19, 1905, in Waco, Texas - December 9, 1982) was the Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. Jaworski was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, shortly after the Saturday Night Massacre which led to the dismissal of prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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