Macau Daily Times 澳門每日時報 1973 Nixon takes rap for Watergate Scandal

President Richard Nixon took full responsibility for the Watergate scandal, but has denied any personal participation.

In a speech that was broadcast to the American people this evening, he sworsens to go to the bottom of the matter and said: “There will be no white wash in the Whitehouse.”

Before that, he accepted the resignation of four of his closest helpers, including Attorney General Richard G Kleinidienst.

The advisors of the White House, HR Haldeman and John D Ehrlichman and advisor to President John W Dean III were also resigned by the advisors of the White House. Assumed.

The president announced that he had appointed Minister of Defense Elliott L. Richardson as the new Attorney General and had accused him of fully responsible for the unveiling of the truth behind the Watergate affair.

He said: “In his political campaigns, America must not fall back into the trap of leaving the end, as big as the ends of justifying the means.”

The Democrats immediately demanded that the entire Watergate investigation be handed over to an impartial prosecutor and that a special committee of the house will be set up in order to examine the possibility of participating the president in the scandal.

The Watergate affair began in June 1972 after five men were arrested in the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic Party in Washington in the early morning hours.

They had photographic devices and insect devices with them.

In the following months, connections between several of the suspects and one or the other part of the Republican power structure were unveiled.

In January of this year, seven men were sentenced two and a half months for conspiracy, burglary and listening to the headquarters of the Democratic Party after Richard Nixon was re -elected as President of the United States.

Despite the continued rejection of the leading civil servants in the Nixon government that Watergate had no connection to the White House, the affair grabbed and it seems that it still has a way before it comes to its conclusion.

With the kind permission of BBC News

In context

The former Attorney General Archibald Cox was appointed special prosecutor by the Senate and a three-month independent examination of ERVin Committee began in May 1973.

On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court of Nixon ordered to hand over records of 64 talks from the White House and to reject the president's claims on executive privileges.

Three days later, the House judicial committee took the important step to recommend the President of the United States, accused and remove from office.

He was accused

On August 9th, Nixon was the first president of the United States to resign – and thus avoided the survey.

His successor, President Gerald Ford, published unconditional pardon for all crimes that Nixon may have committed as president.

A total of 40 government officials, including Haldeman and Ehrlichman, were either charged or imprisoned.

In 2005 it became known that the former FBI deputy headmark was the anonymous source “Deep Throat”, which reveals the Washington Post Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reporters to the Watergate affair.

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