US HISTORY VIDEO GUIDE: WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY 1 ...

NAME: __________________________ Period ________US HISTORYVIDEO GUIDE: WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY1. What happened during the Watergate burglary that almost called the whole thingoff?2. Who were the two Washington Post reporters assigned to the Watergate story?3. What was Pat Buchanan’s role in the Nixon administration?4. Who was the Attorney General of the United States during Nixon’s presidency?5. Why did Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA, call the FBI immediatelyfollowing the Watergate burglary?6. When did people believe that the cover-up of the Watergate actually began?7. What was the name of the “source” who leaked information to the WashingtonPost during the Watergate investigation? Is this “source” still living?8. What was the “source” from #7’s advice to Woodward and Bernstein?9. Why was attorney Mitchell so convinced that the Watergate scandal would notcripple Richard Nixon’s campaign for re-election?10. What mistake did Woodward and Bernstein make in a news report concerning tiesto a secret slush fund?11. Who was the only ally that the Washington Post had during the scandal?12. Why did Nixon’s people despise Dan Rather?

13. Who won the 1972 Presidential election? By how much?14. When Senator Sam Ervin phoned President Nixon during the Watergate hearings,what did the President repeatedly yell at Ervin?15. What did Alexander Butterfield reveal at the Watergate hearings concerning theOval Office?16. Why was Vice President Spiro T. Agnew forced to resign in 1973?17. Why did President Nixon argue that the Presidential tapes need not be given up tothe investigation committee?18. Who was the man who eventually fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox duringthe Saturday Night Massacre?19. Why did the Saturday Night Massacre upset many Republican politicians?20. What was wrong with one of the tapes that Nixon eventually handed over?21. What was considered to be the “smoking gun” heard during one of the President’stapes?22. Who does CBS believe is Deep Throat?