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The Senate Watergate Committee, known officially as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, was a special committee established by the United States Senate, S.Res. 60, in 1973, to investigate the Watergate scandal, with the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the ...
Senate Watergate Committee vice-chairman Howard Baker (R-TN) on Ervin during the Watergate Hearings [27] Ervin gained lasting fame through his stewardship of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices, also known as the Senate Watergate Committee , from the 1972 presidential election .
On February 7, 1973, the United States Senate voted 77-to-0 to approve 93 S.Res. 60 and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Sam Ervin named chairman the next day. [13] The hearings held by the Senate committee, in which Dean and other former administration officials testified, were broadcast from May 17 to August 7.
The Senate Watergate Committee, organized to investigate the Watergate break-in and the role of President Nixon in its occurrence and subsequent cover-up, sits in the Caucus Room in the Russell ...
As co-chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, Baker filed an appendix to the panel’s final report raising what he said were unanswered questions about the actions of CIA director Richard ...
On June 27, 1973, [1] Dean provided to the Senate Watergate Committee this updated "master list" of political opponents. [2] The original list had multiple sections, including a section for "Black Congressmen".
For those of us who lived through the Watergate hearings, the Jan. 6 committee report has eerie similarities — and stark differences. For those of us who lived through the Watergate hearings ...
The Watergate scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex by members of President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign, and the subsequent cover-up of the break-in resulting in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, as well as other abuses of power by the Nixon White House that were discovered during ...