Pick 6 of the following people and explain what role they played in the Watergate Scandal.Maurice Stans, Bob Woodward, James McCord, John Mitchell, Donald Segretti, Earl Silbert, HughSloan, Katharine Graham, H.R. Haldeman, E. Howard Hunt, Richard Kleindienst, G. Gordon Liddy, Jeb Magruder, Charles Colson, John Dean, Bob Dole, John Ehrlichman, Sam Ervin, Mark Felt, Howard Baker, Carl Bernstein, Robert Bork, Benjamin Bradlee, Pat Buchanan, Archibald CoxThe Watergate Trial Conversations are excerpted Nixon White House tape conversations that were played in open court in U.S. v. Mitchell, et al. and U.S. v. Connally. The segments are a portion of the approximately 60 hours of tape subpoenaed by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF).Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down Richard Nixon. “Watergate” is a general term used to describe a complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974. The word specifically refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C.As the Watergate scandal fades from memory to myth, a central question about the scarring chapter in U.S. history lingers: Did Richard M. Nixon’s misdeeds and downfall strip the nation of its innocence or affirm the resilience of the American system? See the Washington Post archive here.Here's a great timeline of the Watergate Scandal.

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