It included various illegal activities constructed and carried out to help reelect President Richard

Nixon in the 1972 presidential elections. Watergate included burglary, wire tapping, violations of

campaign financing laws, and sabotage and attempted use of government agencies to harm

political opponents. It also involved a cover-up of conduct. There were about forty people

charged with crimes in the scandal and related crimes. Most of them were convicted by juries or

plead guilty. Watergate involved more high-level government officials than any previous scandal

in the United States. It led to the conviction of former Attorney General John Mitchell and two

of Nixon's top aides, John Erlichmen and H.R. Haldeman, in 1975. Former Secretary of

Commerce Maurice H. Stans, a leader of Nixon's reelection campaign pled guilty to Watergate

criminal charges and was fined $5000. Watergate also resulted in the resignation of Attorney

General Richard Kleindienst in 1973.

Watergate really began in 1969 when the White House staff made up a list of enemies.

This so-called "enemies list" was kept of people the

The Special Investigations Unit, better known as the "plumbers unit," was created as a

Eventually, investigators would examine the records of the activities of Maurice Stans, former

electronic equipment that they had installed in May. The police apprehended a walkie talkie, forty

the fund. All were principal assistants of John Mitchell, Campaign Director of the CRP. This

of Maine was ruined. False rumors circulated to newspapers. The day before the election,

with the burlary were about more than Nixon's fall from power. Watergate was about a seamy

CIA refused to cooperate. So the Nixon administration successfully applied political pressure to

Attorney General John Mitchell, and Secretary of the Treasury John Connally. They discovered a

increase price supports. There were also efforts to pressure corporate contributors by threatening

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