Watergate Exhibit Evidence

Section 1: Conspiracy Thinking

- Oral History snippet: Daniel Ellsberg on leaking the Pentagon Papers.
- Tape snippet: “You need a Team.”
- Tape snippet: “This is a conspiracy.”
- H.R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House, pp. 314-315
- Oral History snippet: President Nixon on the Plumbers.

- J. Edgar Hoover to Dean, Re: Schorr, December 20, 1971
- Tape snippet: September 1971, “Going after Dan Schorr”
- Oral History snippet: Dan Schorr on his FBI investigation

- Tape snippet: “I want the Brookings Institute safe cleaned out”
- Colson to Haldeman, Re: William Kaufman, June 18, 1971
- Higby to Haldeman, July 8, 1971
- Oral History snippet: Jack Caulfield on the Firebombing of the Brookings Institute
- Oral History snippet: Daniel Ellsberg on leaking the Pentagon Papers.

Section 2: Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage

- Strachan to Haldeman, April 22, 1971
- Watergate Special Prosecution Force on Strachan's Senate Testimony
- Oral History snippet: Len Garment on what President Nixon knew.
- Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy on Political Espionage

- Tape snippet: “This is a guy who’ll get out and tear things up.” May 1971.
- Tape snippet: “Financing a Kennedy Write-in Campaign,” December 1971.
- Ficker Letter
- Senate Watergate Report, p.304
- Oral History snippet: Dwight Chapin on dirty tricks
- Senate Watergate Report, p. 253
- Oral History snippet: President Nixon on dirty tricks

- Gordon Strachan memcon, “H, AG, JSM,” November 4, 1971
- Handwritten Note by Strachan, April 4, 1972
- Handwritten Note by Strachan, April 14, 1972
- Gordon Strachan's talking paper for Haldeman before meeting with Mitchell, November 4, 1971
- The FBI report on Strachan’s Interrogation
- H.R. Haldeman, The Ends of Power, pp. 19, 155, 317-318
- E. Howard Hunt, American Spy, pp. 203, 223-224
- G. Gordon Liddy, Will, pp. 198-199, 219-220, 237-239
- Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy on the orgins of the Watergate breakin.
- Oral History snippet: Magruder on the orgins of the Watergate breakin.
- Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy on Colson's role in getting a decision on Gemstone
- Oral History snippet: Colson on his role in getting a decision on Gemstone
- Oral History snippet: Colson on discussing the Watergate decision with Magruder in Prison
- Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy recalls the motivation for the 2nd breakin
- Vintage TV snippet: John Mitchell testifies to the Senate on Gemstone
- Oral History snippet: Gordon Liddy recalls the first Gemstone plan

Section 3: The Cover Up

Section 4: Investigations

- McCord Letter to Judge Sirica
- Tape: March 21, 1973 "Cancer on the Presidency"
- Oral History snippet: Judge Sirica's law Clerk recalls the coverup.
- Oral History snippet: Egil "Bud" Krogh on deciding to plead guilty
- Vintage TV snippet: Howard Baker and John Dean "What did the President know and when did he know it"
- Transcript of a Recording of a Meeting among the President, H.R. Haldeman and John Dean (first installment), September 15, 1972 from 5:27 to 6:17 P.M.

Section 5: The Fight over the Tapes

- Oral History snippet: Butterfield testifies
- Oral History snippet: Robert Bork on "Executive Privilege"
- Oral History snippet: Justice Bryer on "Executive Privilege"
- Oral History snippet: William Ruckelshaus on why he did not fire Cox
- Oral History snippet: White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig on the Stennis Compromise
- Oral History snippet: Robert Bork on Firing Archibald Cox
- Vintage TV snippet: Archibald Cox's press conference (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5)
- Oral History snippet: Judge Sirica's law Clerk on the Supreme Court's ruling
- Oral History snippet: Judge Sirica's law Clerk on the Whitehouse tapes
- Oral History snippet: Jill Wine-Banks on using Dean's testimony as a roadmap for the WSPF.
- Oral History snippet: White House Press Secretary Warren on the Smoking Gun tape
- Oral History snippet: Steve Bull on why Nixon kept the tapes.
- Oral History snippet: Robert Bork on how President Nixon defend himself
- Oral History snippet: Alexander Haig on President Nixon's request to burn the tapes
- Oral History snippet: Leonard Garment on President Nixon and Watergate
- Oral History snippet: D. Todd Christofferson on the importance of the tapes
- Oral History snippet: Jill Wine-Banks on the WSPF and Dean's testimony
- Oral History snippet: William Ruckelshaus on Dean's testimony
- Oral History snippet: D. Todd Christofferson on the March 21, 1973 conversation
- Tape: March 21, 1973 "You could get a million dollars"
- Oral History snippet: A. Linwood Holton on pressure applied during the Committee vote
- Vintage TV snippet: Caldwell Butler explains his vote
- Vintage TV snippet: The debate in the House Judicary Committee
- Vintage TV snippet: President Nixon's statement on the tapes, September 5, 1973
- Tape snippet: "The Smoking Gun"
- Vintage TV snippet: Republican congressmen react the the Smoking Gun tape
- Oral History snippet: Fredrick Malek recalls the effect of the tapes
- Oral History snippet: Trent Lott recalls the effect of the Smoking Gun release
- Oral History snippet: Cohen recalls the effect of the Smoking Gun release
- Vintage TV snippet: The effect of the Smoking Gun on Yorba Linda
- Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from President Nixon's farewell speech
- Oral History snippet: Garment on President Nixon's farewell speech
- Oral History snippet: Barbara Franklin on President Nixon's farewell speech
- Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from President Ford's speech August 9, 1974
- Time Magazine Editorial: November 12, 1973

Section 6: The View from San Clemente

- Oral History snippet: Herb Klein on setting up the David Frost interview
- Oral History snippet: David Frost on President Nixon's Apology
- Oral History snippet: Leonard Garment on President Nixon's Apology
- Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from the Frost interview "Sword"
- Vintage TV snippet: Excerpt from the Frost interview "Final"

Section 7: Why Watergate Mattered

- Oral History snippet: Wine Banks
- Oral History snippet: Bernstein
- Oral History snippet: D. Todd Christofferson
- Oral History snippet: Trent Lott
- Oral History snippet: Robert Dole

Breadcrumb

Section 1: Conspiracy Thinking

Section 2: Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage

Section 3: The Cover Up

Section 4: Investigations

Section 5: The Fight over the Tapes

Section 6: The View from San Clemente

Section 7: Why Watergate Mattered

Photographs