Nixon and Watergate Questions

The first half of the video posed several questions about Nixon and the Watergate break-in. In small groups attempt to answer these questions. After we watch the end of the video, decide if your initial suspicions were either “Correct” or “Disproved” and write it in the blank. Then answer the final questions.

______1. Why do members of the Committee to Re-elect the President resort to illegal tactics?

______2. What does the Nixon campaign hope to learn?

______3. What is Nixon paranoid about?

______4. Does the White House know who's leaking information to the Washington Post

______5. Who's paying the Burglar's legal Bills?

______6. Did Nixon play any role in the Watergate break-in?

______7. Why is the President taping his conversations? ______8. Was the tape deliberately erased?

______9. Would the Senate have removed Nixon from Office?

______10. What did Nixon know and when did he know it?

Final Questions 1. How many of your initial suspicions were disproved? ______Pick one of your Disproved answers. Why did you say what you said?

2. What do you think people living at the time of the Watergate scandal thought about President Nixon? What do you think they thought about the Government in general?

3. What kind of an effect do you think Watergate had on the United States?