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On August 5, 1974, several of President Richard Nixon's recorded-on-audiotape Oval Office conversations were released. One of them, which was described as the "smoking gun" tape, was recorded soon after the Watergate break-in, and demonstrated that Richard Nixon had been told of the White House connection to the Watergate burglaries soon after they took place, and approved a plan to thwart the ...
The morning that his resignation took effect, the President, with Mrs. Nixon and their family, said farewell to the White House staff in the East Room. [84] A helicopter carried them from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Nixon later wrote that he thought, "As the helicopter moved on to Andrews, I found myself thinking not ...
Nixon presided over the reorganization of the Bureau of the Budget into the more powerful Office of Management and Budget, further concentrating executive power in the White House. [31] He also created the Domestic Council , an organization charged with coordinating and formulating domestic policy. [ 35 ]
When the White House sent word to Expo '74 leadership that Nixon had decided to show up for opening day that year, a group of Spokane Democrats adopted a resolution calling for the president to ...
Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon entered the Oval Office, stared into a television camera and performed an act that still echoes in today's very different political ...
The White House releases 150 million in federal highway funds for the previous year. [42] March 6 – President Nixon vetoes the Energy Emergency Act. [43] President Nixon holds a televised and radio broadcast news conference in the East Room at the White House during the evening. [44]
The high court delivered a unanimous order that Nixon had to comply with a judicial subpoena seeking specific evidence – taped White House conversations – that was instrumental to Nixon’s ...
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 ...