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bucolic_frolic

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2. Suddenly this is taking on the aura of Nixon's White House Tapes
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 09:27 PM
Jul 19

which Nixon went to SCOTUS to try to suppress. And THAT was a minor league coverup compared to the criminality alleged here.

Maybe only those of us who remember can relate, but the Saturday Night Massacre, the Special Counsel and his replacement, and all the crew that eventually would up in jail ......

https://watergate.info/analysis/casualties-and-convictions/


Watergate Casualties and Convictions

In the aftermath of Richard Nixon’s resignation, Watergate continued to claim victims.

The final toll included:


one presidential resignation

one vice-presidential resignation – although Agnew’s crimes were unrelated to Watergate

40 government officials indicted or jailed

H.R. Haldeman and John Erlichman (White House staff), resigned 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

John Dean (White House legal counsel), sacked 30 April 1973, subsequently jailed

John Mitchell, Attorney-General and Chairman of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), jailed

Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy (ex-White House staff), planned the Watergate break-in, both jailed

Charles Colson, special counsel to the President, jailed

James McCord (Security Director of CREEP), jailed

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