The 'Movements' and Watergate

Who were the two Washington Post journalists who uncovered the Watergate Scandal over the course of two years?

• Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

• Bob Jones and Sam Ervin Jr.

• John Dean & James McCord

• Gerald Ford & Spiro Agnew

The Watergate Office Complex was home to the ____________________________ which was burglarized by five men paid by the Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972.

• Forrest Gump's hotel

• The Republican Convention

• The Democratic National Committee headquarters

• The CIA Headquarters

Check the box for all of the following 'True' statements about the Watergate scandal.

• President Nixon ordered the break-in of the DNC headquarters

• President Nixon was re-elected in 1972

• President Nixon ordered a cover-up of the break-in of the DNC headquarters

• President Nixon was impeached in 1974

President Nixon and his administration tried to order the CIA to stop the ____________ investigation into the source of the money paid to the burglars.

• ATF

• FBI

• Senate Intelligence Committee

• Washington D.C. Police Department

Check the box for all of the following 'True' statements concerning the 'case of the tapes' during the Watergate scandal.

• Alexander Butterfield informed the Senate's Select Committee that President Nixon had installed taping devices in the White House to record conversations.

• President Nixon tried to claim 'executive privilege' when asked to turn over the tapes

• The Supreme Court ruled that President Nixon had to turn over the tapes

• President Nixon had all tapes destroyed and no evidence was ever heard connecting the president and the burglary

After President Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974, which of the following happened?

• VP Gerald Ford became President of the United States

• Richard Nixon was pardoned by President Ford

• many Americans lost trust in their government

• all of the above

What makes President Gerald Ford unique?

• he could not chew gum and walk at the same time

• he is the only president to fall off of Air Force One

• he is the only president to have never been elected to the White House

• he played football at Indiana University

It is easy to point out the failures of individuals, and arguably, happens too often today.

That said, President Nixon's accomplishments are often overlooked due to the Watergate scandal. Check all of the following that Nixon accomplished while in office.

• Nixon formalized relations with China and began the economic trade relationship between the two countries

• Nixon formed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that oversees air and water pollution and set environmental standards in America

• Nixon brought an end to the Vietnam War and helped bring American soldiers home

• Nixon helped add Title IX to the Civil Rights Act to ban gender discrimination in universities and colleges

Check the statement you feel best describes the legacy of the Watergate scandal on America.

• the scandal had produced, “a fundamental discrediting of respect for the presidency ... [and] a new skepticism about politics, in general, which every American feels to this day.”

  • Alexander Haig
• "Watergate was probably a good thing for the country; it was a good, sobering lesson. Accountability to the law applies to everyone...We have our laws and believe them, and they apply to everyone..."

  • Bob Woodward
• "Watergate does not bother me, does your conscious bother you?"

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

During the 1960s, a sub-culture emerged from the counterculture and they became known as ________________ - a group that experimented with new styles of dress, music, freer sexual relationships, and recreational drug use

• bums

• hippies

• millenials

• feminists