"Smoking Gun"- Richard Nixon and Bob Haldeman discuss the Watergate break-in, June 23, 1972
From Wikivideos
Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Video source record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Smoking%20Gun%22-%20Richard%20Nixon%20and%20Bob%20Haldeman%20discuss%20the%20Watergate%20break-in%2C%20June%2023%2C%201972.webm
0:00 / --:--
Player mode uses your custom Wikivideos controls.
Summary
| Description | On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon met with Chief of Staff H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman in the White House. This meeting was captured by recording devices in the Oval Office. In this conversation segment, President Nixon and Haldeman discuss the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building. They focus on the progress of the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, especially on the tracing the source of money found on the burglars. They propose having the Central Intelligence Agency ask the FBI to halt their investigation of the Watergate break-in by claiming that the break-in had been a national security operation. Persons mentioned include FBI Director L. Patrick ("Pat") Gray, CIA director Richard Helms, FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Vernon A. Walters; White House aides John Mitchell, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, and Charles ("Chuck") Colson; Watergate operatives G. Gordon Liddy, E |
|---|---|
| Date | 2014-06-23 |
| Source | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Author | RichardNixonLibrary |
Licensing
CC0 / Public Domain
Attribution: RichardNixonLibrary, 2014-06-23
File usage
- Watergate_scandal en.wikipedia.org
- User:HAL333/watergate en.wikipedia.org