Section 1: Conspiracy Thinking

Issue: Forming the Plumbers

• Oral History snippet: Daniel Ellsberg on leaking the Pentagon Papers.
  
  
• Tape snippet: “You need a Team.”
  
  
• Tape snippet: “This is a conspiracy.”
  
  
• H.R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House, pp. 314-315
  
  
• Oral History snippet: President Nixon on the Plumbers.

Issue: Investigation of Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Tape snippet: July 3, 1971, on Jews in the Federal Government
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Fred Malek on the BLS Investigation.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Charles Colson on the BLS Investigation.
  
  
• Colson to Haldeman, “Labor Release,” July 2, 1971
  
  
• Higby to Haldeman, July 8, 1971
  
  
• Memo, Haldeman to Malek, “Bureau of Labor Statistics,” [undated]
  
  
• Malek to Haldeman, “Action Plan,” July 14, 1971
  
  
• Colson to Malek, July 20, 1971
  
  
• Kingsley to Malek, “Harold Goldstein,” July 22, 1971
  
  
• Haldeman to Malek, July 26, 1971
  
  
• Malek to Haldeman, July 27, 1971
  
  
• Kingsley via Malek to Haldeman, July 30, 1971 (first document)
  
  
• Kingsley via Malek to Haldeman, July 30, 1971 (second document)
  
  
• Kingsley to Malek, [handwritten note], July 30, 1971
  
  
• Malek and Colson to Nixon, October 14, 1971
  
  
• H.R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House, pp. 314-315

Issue: Investigation of Daniel Schorr

• J. Edgar Hoover to Dean, Re: Schorr, December 20, 1971
  
  
• Tape snippet: September 1971, “Going after Dan Schorr”
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Dan Schorr on his FBI investigation

Issue: Enemies List

• Handwritten Note by Haldeman, June 23, 1971
  
  
• Gordon Strachan’s Daily Note of June 23, 1971
  
  
• Cover letter to Enemies List, Dean to Higby, September 14, 1971
  
  
• Enemies List
  
  
• Tape snippet: September 18, 1971: “Going after Dan Schorr”
  
  
• Tape snippet: August 3, 1972 President Nixon, Ehrlichman, and Haldeman discuss using the IRS against political enemies.
  
  
• Tape snippet: September 8, 1972, President Nixon and Haldeman discuss the IRS and an enemies list
  
  
• Tape snippet: September 15, 1972 President Nixon, Haldeman, and Dean discuss George Shultz, the IRS and the enemies list
  
  
• Tape snippet: September 15, 1972 President Nixon, Haldeman and Dean discuss political use of the IRS
  
  
• Oral History snippet: George Shultz on the enemies list.

Issue: Firebombing of Brookings?

• Tape snippet: “I want the Brookings Institute safe cleaned out”
  
  
• Colson to Haldeman, Re: William Kaufman, June 18, 1971
  
  
• Higby to Haldeman, July 8, 1971
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Jack Caulfield on the Firebombing of the Brookings Institute
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Daniel Ellsberg on leaking the Pentagon Papers.

Issue: Fielding Break-in

• Tape snippet: Los Angeles Operation
  
  
• E. Howard Hunt, American Spy, p. 191
  
  
• Egil Krogh and David Young Memorandum, August 11, 1971, SSC Exhibit No. 90, 6 SSC 2644-45
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Egil "Bud" Krogh on the Fielding Breakin.
  
  
• Egil "Bud" Krogh on pleading guilty, Integrity, p. 130

Section 2: Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage

Issue: Historical Background

• John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, p. 47
  
  
• John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, p. 49
  
  
• John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, p. 50

Issue: President Nixon’s interest in Political Espionage and infiltration

• Strachan to Haldeman, April 22, 1971
  
  
• Watergate Special Prosecution Force on Strachan's Senate Testimony
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Len Garment on what President Nixon knew.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy on Political Espionage

Issue: President Nixon and Dirty Tricks

• Tape snippet: “This is a guy who’ll get out and tear things up.”  May 1971.
  
  
• Tape snippet: “Financing a Kennedy Write-in Campaign,” December 1971.
  
  
• Ficker Letter
  
  
• Senate Watergate Report, p.304
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Dwight Chapin on dirty tricks
  
  
• Senate Watergate Report, p. 253
  
  
• Oral History snippet: President Nixon on dirty tricks

Issue: Liddy’s Intelligence Operations

• Gordon Strachan memcon, “H, AG, JSM,” November 4, 1971
  
  
• Handwritten Note by Strachan, April 4, 1972
  
  
• Handwritten Note by Strachan, April 14, 1972
  
  
• Gordon Strachan's talking paper for Haldeman before meeting with Mitchell, November 4, 1971
  
  
• The FBI report on Strachan’s Interrogation
  
  
• H.R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power, pp. 19, 155, 317-318
  
  
• E. Howard Hunt, American Spy, pp. 203, 223-224
  
  
• G. Gordon Liddy, Will, pp. 198-199, 219-220, 237-239
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy on the orgins of the Watergate breakin.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Magruder on the orgins of the Watergate breakin.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy on Colson's role in getting a decision on Gemstone
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Colson on his role in getting a decision on Gemstone
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Colson on discussing the Watergate decision with Magruder in Prison
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy recalls the motivation for the 2nd breakin
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: John Mitchell testifies to the Senate on Gemstone
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy recalls the first Gemstone plan
  

Issue: 24 hour surveillance of Senator Kennedy

• Haldeman handwritten notes, June 23, 1971
  
  
• Gordon Strachan's Daily Note for June 23, 1971
  
  
• Gordon Strachan's Daily Note for July 26, 1971
  
  
• Gordon Strachan's Daily Note for July 29, 1971
  
  
• Tape: July 1, 1971: President Nixon and Haldeman discussing special fund, Kalmbach and paying for EMK surveillance

Section 3: The Cover Up

Theme: payments and pardons to the burglars

• Tape snippet: “If it blows, it blows.” August 1, 1972.
  
  
• Watergate Special Prosecution Force on Strachan's Senate Testimony
  
  
• Vernon Walters Memorandum, June 28, 1972, SSC Exhibit No. 130 9 SSC 3816-17
  
  
• Tape snippet: "Hunt's Disappearance" June 20, 1972
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Carl Bernstein on the first discovery
  
  
• Tape: June 30, 1972. President Nixon and Haldeman discuss Liddy and the Cuban cover up scenarios
  
  
• Tape snippet: President Nixon suggesting to Colson that they find a group to stage a break-in at GOP HQs to blame on the Democrats, July 1, 1972.
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972. President Nixon and Charles Colson discuss pardoning the Burglers and Anti-war Protesters together
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972. President Nixon and Haldeman discuss Magruder's FBI testimony and pardoning him
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972 President Nixon and Ehrlichman discuss the Magruder Problem (segment 1)
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972 President Nixon and Ehrlichman discuss the Magruder Problem (segment 2)
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972 President Nixon and Ehrlichman discuss the Magruder Problem (segment 3)
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972 President Nixon and Ehrlichman discuss the Magruder Problem (segment 4)
  
  
• Tape: July 19, 1972 President Nixon and Ehrlichman discuss the Magruder Problem (segment 5)
  
  
• The Dahlberg Check
  
  
• Oral History snippet: WSPF Attorney Earl Silbert on the Cover up

Section 4: Investigations

• McCord Letter to Judge Sirica
  
  
• Tape: March 21, 1973 "Cancer on the Presidency"
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Judge Sirica's law Clerk recalls the coverup.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Egil "Bud" Krogh on deciding to plead guilty
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Howard Baker and John Dean "What did the President know and when did he know it"
  
  
• Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting among the President, H.R. Haldeman and John Dean (first installment), September 15, 1972 from 5:27 to 6:17 P.M.

Section 5: The Fight over the Tapes

• Oral History snippet: Butterfield testifies
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Robert Bork on "Executive Privilege"
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Justice Bryer on "Executive Privilege"
  
  
• Oral History snippet: William Ruckelshaus on why he did not fire Cox
  
  
• Oral History snippet: White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig on the Stennis Compromise
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Robert Bork on Firing Archibald Cox
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Archibald Cox's press conference
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Judge Sirica's law Clerk on the Supreme Court's ruling
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Judge Sirica's law Clerk on the Whitehouse tapes
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Jill Wine-Banks on using Dean's testimony as a roadmap for the WSPF.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: White House Press Secretary Warren on the Smoking Gun tape
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Steve Bull on why Nixon kept the tapes.
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Robert Bork on how President Nixon defend himself
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Alexander Haig on President Nixon's request to burn the tapes
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Leonard Garment on President Nixon and Watergate
  
  
• Oral History snippet: D. Todd Christofferson on the importance of the tapes
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Jill Wine-Banks on the WSPF and Dean's testimony
  
  
• Oral History snippet: William Ruckelshaus on Dean's testimony
  
  
• Oral History snippet: D. Todd Christofferson on the March 21, 1973 conversation
  
  
• Tape: March 21, 1973 "You could get a million dollars"
  
  
• Oral History snippet: A. Linwood Holton on pressure applied during the Committee vote
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Archibald Cox's press conference
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Caldwell Butler explains his vote
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: The debate in the House Judicary Committee
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: President Nixon's statement on the tapes, September 5, 1973
  
  
• Tape snippet: "The Smoking Gun"
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Republican congressmen react the the Smoking Gun tape
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Fredrick Malek recalls the effect of the tapes
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Trent Lott recalls the effect of the Smoking Gun release
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Cohen recalls the effect of the Smoking Gun release
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: The effect of the Smoking Gun on Yorba Linda
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from President Nixon's farewell speech
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Garment on President Nixon's farewell speech
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Barbara Franklin on President Nixon's farewell speech
  
  
• Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from President Ford's speech August 9, 1974
  
  
• Time Magazine Editorial: November 12, 1973

Section 6: A View from San Clemente

Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from the Frost interview "Final"

Section 7: Why Watergate Mattered

• Oral History snippet: Wine Banks
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Bernstein
  
  
• Oral History snippet: D. Todd Christofferson
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Trent Lott
  
  
• Oral History snippet: Robert Dole
  
  

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Baker, Howard

Barker, Bernard

Bernstein, Carl

Bork, Robert

Butterfield, Alexander

McCord, James W. Jr.

Chapin, Dwight

Colson, Charles

Cox, Archibald

Dean, John

Diem, Ngo Dinh

Ehrlichman, John

Ellsberg, Daniel

Ervin, Sam

Ford, Gerald

Gonzalez, Virgilio

Haldman, H.R.

Haig, Alexander

Hunt, E. Howard

Liddy, G. Gordon

Malek, Fred

Martinez, Eugenio

Mitchell, John

O'Brien, Larry

Richardson, Elliot

Ruckelshaus, William

Shorr, Daniel

Segretti, Donald

Sirica, John

Stennis, John

Strachen, Gordon

Sturgis, Frank

Young, David

Woodward, Bob