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Former Republican Vice-President Richard Milhous Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey for the presidency on November 5th, 1968. It was one of the closest elections in U.S. History. Nixon approved a plan to increase intelligence gathering by the CIA, FBI, and other agencies, but then he changed his mind and pulled out his approval. On June 13th, 1971, the New York Times and later the Washington Post began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the Vietnam War. On September 3rd, 1971 a psychiatrist’s office was burglarized to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, who was responsible for giving the Pentagon Papers information out (Revisiting Watergate, 1). On June 17th, 1972, five men were arrested trying to bug the Democratic National Committee Office at the Watergate Hotel. One said that he used to work for the CIA. One was a GOP security aide. One of the burglars has a $25, 000 cashiers check intended for the Nixon campaign in his bank account. Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr. are convicted of burglary, wiretapping and conspiracy in the Watergate incident. Five other men pleaded guilty (2). Nixon made many choices involving the Watergate Scandal cover-up. When first accused, Nixon along with John Mitchell, denied any White House connection. He said, “The White House has had no involvement whatsoever in the particular incident.” Nixon had the option of coming clean and admitting his involvement; however, he chose to try to sweep it under the rug.
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