Watergate Scandal Timeline

Deep-throat was actually Associate Director of the FBI, Mark Felt. He confessed he was deep-throat in 2005.

WATERGATE TIMELINE

In November 1968, Richard Nixon beats Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election for the Republican Party.

On July of 1970, Nixon approves a plan for increased intelligence gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies.

September of 1971: The White House "plumbers" unit (named for their ability to plug leaks in the administration) rob a psychiatrists office for files on Daniel Ellsberg, who released Pentagon Files earlier that year.

June 17, 1972: Five men are arrested for trying to rob the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel and Complex.

September 29, 1972: John Mitchell, while working as Attorney General, controlled finances for Republican intelligence gathering operations against the Democrats.

October 10, 1972: FBI agents confirm that the Watergate Break-In comes from a massive campaign of spying, sabotage, and more conducted on behalf of President Nixon's reelection campaign.

November 11, 1972: Nixon is reelected in one of the biggest landslides in American history, with over 60% of the total votes.

January 30, 1973: Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate scandal. 5 others plead guilty.

May 18, 1973: Senate Watergate committee begins its nationally televised hearings.

June 3, 1973: John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon over 35 times.

July 13, 1973: Alexander Butterfield (former presidential appointments secretary), reveals in testimony that since 1971 Nixon recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices.

July 18, 1973: Nixon orders the White House taping system disconnected.

July 23, 1973: Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or special prosecuter

November 17, 1973: Nixon states "I'm not a crook." maintaining his innocence in the Watergate case.

April 30, 1974: The White House releases over 1,2000 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee. They insist the tapes themselves must be turned over.

July 27, 1974: The House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice.

August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes role as president. He later pardons Nixon of all charges related to Watergate.

Lesllie Perez Spring Break Interview

"Spring break was really needed." Lesllie said.

Lesllie Perez spent the much of her break not being able to do much, but that hadn't stopped her from enjoying her break.

She sadly didn't go anywhere fun over break, unable to travel, staying here in Des Moines the entire time. She would have liked to go to Hawaii, or someplace warm and tropical, but couldn't.

She didn't visit any distant relatives while on break, and mainly spent time with close family and friends during the week.

She feels like the most fun thing she's done over break was just being able to spend time with her friends more outside of school.

She wasn't able to do as much as she wanted, because she was sick for the first half of spring break, so that had limited her options, and how much she wanted to get done.

"I'm looking forward to next years spring break, because I'm hoping to be more productive than this years." Lesllie said.

During Spring Break Lesllie spent time on her extracurricular activities, practicing to improve her soccer skills to prepare for the season to start.

Her lowest point was really not being able to do much, just sitting around, not being able to be as active, watching Netflix.

Even though Lesllie was sick for half of spring break, she still had enjoyed her break overall, despite not being able to do as much as others may have had.

She feels Spring Break could have gone much better than if she wasn't sick. She was able to still get much done, enjoying the time off from school, taking a break from schoolwork in general, and being with her friends.

Stephen Glass Article Review

http://wp.lps.org/akabour/files/2013/12/Spring-Breakdown-Stephen-Glass.pdf

After reading the article Spring Breakdown, I can see now how he wasn't caught as soon as he started it. If I hadn't known that Stephen Glass faked most or all of this, then I would've believed the article.

He gives so much detail about the events that took place, like he was there, even when he wasn't. He gives detail about the people there, the hotel rooms and parties they attended, that it seems hard to make up.

He gives a vivid description of many of the people there, each with their own quick and small background, including a  place of origin, and age.

He comes up with all of this, mixing facts with fiction so it'd sound much more real. He gives details about the conference that sound believable, that most people would overlook and just naturally believe.

He talks about what it was like in the past, and how it's currently affecting C.P.A.C's popularity. That doesn't begin to cover how he backs up what he's saying.

He covers up some of the claims he makes by saying that they won't release the numbers of those who showed up because of how embarrassingly low the numbers are, only giving estimates that supposedly came from veterans of the event.

And even if there was truth in that, why didn't anyone at cpac call him out for his claims that attendance was dramatically dropping?

PUNISHMENT

I feel like he shouldn't be able to write for a newspaper after the events that took place, and deserved the punishment he had gotten.

The fact that he had not been caught earlier is shocking to say the least. I can understand why he wasn't, but I feel like they should have done more research into sources cited.

If he needed a lesser punishment, it had to be suspension from writing. He doesn't deserve a lesser punishment, so it wouldn't matter anyway.

If somebody was able to come up with these stories, partially or completely, then how come they couldn't have put that effort into actually doing journalistic work instead of writing fiction?

I believe that punishment was well-deserved and earned, and I can't see why he would do something like that. Especially for one of the most supported newspapers.