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John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was the 67th Attorney General of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon and was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. Prior to that, he had been a municipal bond lawyer and one of Nixon's associates. [1] He was tried and convicted as a result of ...
The Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex by members of President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign, and the subsequent cover-up of the break-in resulting in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, as well as other abuses of power by the Nixon White House that were discovered during ...
Local reactions to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Otto W. Weigel, 81, a Firestone retiree from Akron: “Well, I hope you Nixon haters are satisfied. His only offense was to try and keep ...
The Republican party nominated the incumbent vice president Richard Nixon as their presidential nominee, with Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the United States ambassador to the United Nations, as his running mate. [2] Most polls after the party conventions showed the Nixon–Lodge ticket having a six point lead over the Kennedy–Johnson ticket. [3]
Watergate Complex, Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., 1965. Credit - Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. F ifty years ago, on Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon told ...
August 8, 2024 at 4:01 PM. Hey OnPolitics readers! Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that ...
978-1-927213-36-0. OCLC. 886960771. Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment is a book by Nicky Hager published in August 2014. The book is based on emails hacked from Cameron Slater 's Gmail account and on Facebook chats. These communications occurred around the same time that a denial-of-service ...
The CNN anchor has written a book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, narrowly won by Kennedy, that featured the first televised presidential debates. “The 1960 presidential ...