HIST 2620 1nd Edition Lecture 33 Outline of Last Lecture I Vietnam Outline of Current Lecture II End of Vietnam III Watergate Current Lecture End of Vietnam Nixon runs against Hubert Humphrey Nixon promises peace with honor Humphrey wants to continue war Nixon wins election and starts vietnamization get troops out resumes bombing Cambodia to protect troop withdrawl and to show them what the U S could do to them if they decide to become communist on the home front citizens begin protesting a third of campuses shut down people stop going to work and to school to show they are against the war Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution so that Nixon could stop doing what he pleases bombing election is approaching which means Nixon is rushed to end the war so he can get reelected Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign a peace agreement calling for an end to all ceasefire violations in South Vietnam the settlement included an end to all military activities an end to U S flights over North Vietnam the resumption of U S talks on aid to North Vietnam Nixon was reelected and decides to throw out the peace agreement bombs North Vietnam a k a Christmas Bombing Watergate June 17 1972 several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Nixon gave a speech in which he swore that his White House staff was not involved in the break in he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to the burglars seven conspirators were indicted on charges related to the Watergate affair five pleaded guilty and avoided trial the other two were convicted in January 1973 John Dean testified before a grand jury about the president s crimes they also testified that Nixon had secretly taped every conversation that took place in the Oval Office Nixon agreed to give some but not all of the tapes he gave 7 out of 9 to them House of Representatives voted to impeach him for obstruction of justice abuse of power criminal cover up and several violations of the Constitution August 5 Nixon released the tapes which provided evidence of his contribution in the Watergate crimes
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