Lee then blamed the scandal for economic inflation in Singapore because the Singapore dollar was pegged to the United States dollar at the time, assuming the U.S. dollar was stronger than the British pound sterling. Summarized key Watergate dates and details and its impact on President Richard Nixon by U.S. News", "Words of Watergate: A work about political vocabulary which offers lessons about the dangers of using deceptive language that remain relevant today by Hugh Rawson, director of Penguin USA's reference books operation", "Words of Watergate: Part 2; A work about political vocabulary which offers lessons about the dangers of using deceptive language that remain relevant today by Hugh Rawson, director of Penguin USA's reference books operation", Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, "Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later With MacNeil And Lehrer". Um... Persönlichkeiten der Automobilindustrie. [66], Initially, Nixon gained a positive reaction for his speech. Nixon's agreement to make the blackmail payments was regarded as an affirmative act to obstruct justice. The Watergate scandal left such an impression on the national and international consciousness that many scandals since then have been labeled with the "-gate suffix". In his official response to the pardon, he said that he "was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate, particularly when it reached the stage of judicial proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national tragedy". [58] Butterfield said he was reluctant to answer, but finally admitted there was a new system in the White House that automatically recorded everything in the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room and others, as well as Nixon's private office in the Old Executive Office Building. He asked for the resignation of Attorney General Kleindienst, to ensure no one could claim that his innocent friendship with Haldeman and Ehrlichman could be construed as a conflict. On April 13, Magruder told U.S. attorneys that he had perjured himself during the burglars' trial, and implicated John Dean and John Mitchell. "[142] An unnamed Kenyan senior official of Foreign Affairs Ministry accused Nixon of lacking interest in Africa and its politics and then said, "American President is so enmeshed in domestic problems created by Watergate that foreign policy seems suddenly to have taken a back seat [sic]. Even so, Heath was privately outraged over being taped without his prior knowledge. For the buildings, see, For a chronological guide to this subject, see, Wiretapping of the Democratic Party's headquarters, Senate Watergate hearings and revelation of the Watergate tapes, Legal action against Nixon Administration members, Final legal actions and effect on the law profession, (Transcript of the recording of a meeting between President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman). To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. Disgust with the revelations about Watergate, the Republican Party, and Nixon strongly affected results of the November 1974 Senate and House elections, which took place three months after Nixon's resignation. In the end, Dean and the FBI's Acting Director L. Patrick Gray (in separate operations) destroyed the evidence from Hunt's safe. [122] The 2017 movie Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is about Felt's role in the Watergate scandal and his identity as Deep Throat. On June 19, 1972, the press reported that one of the Watergate burglars was a Republican Party security aide. Because Attorney General Kleindienst, though a distinguished public servant, my personal friend for 20 years, with no personal involvement whatsoever in this matter has been a close personal and professional associate of some of those who are involved in this case, he and I both felt that it was also necessary to name a new Attorney General. [36][35] Mitchell made several attempts to escape via the balcony, but was physically accosted, injured, and forcefully sedated by a psychiatrist. "Hughes, Nixon and the C.I.A. There is a connection", "Nixon Declares He Didn't Profit From Public Life", Richard Nixon: Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Orlando, Florida, "The Legal Aftermath Citizen Nixon and the Law", Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon, "Obituary: Hugh Scott, A Dedicated Public Servant", "Obituary: Clayton Kirkpatrick, 89; Chicago Tribune Editor", "Transcript Prepared by the Impeachment Inquiry Staff for the House Judiciary Committee of a Recording of a Meeting Among the President, John Dean and H.R. He is willing to be led. A watergate (or water gate) is a fortified gate, leading directly from a castle or town wall directly on to a quay, river side or harbour.