Watergate and Iran-Contra Affair quiz – Flashcards

-Break in of psychiatrists office
-plummets broke into watergate hotel
- Bugged democratic office
- Nixon payed them hush money
- Obstruction of justice

-Nixon used a secret group called the plumbers to gain information from the democrats
-Nixon told them do what ever it takes
- plug the leaks

- Nixon payed them hush money
- He deleted the tapes or sections of the tapes
- Nixon did not give up the tapes even though it was considered property of the Us government because the White House was owned by the government.

- Nixon payed them hush money
- He deleted the tapes or sections of the tapes
- Nixon did not give up the tapes even though it was considered property of the Us government because the White House was owned by the government.

-He was pardon of all his crimes in office by president Ford
- Nixon resigned from being president

-Reagan sold weapons to Iran
- He obstructed justice
- violated the constitution
- He though congress was wrong and he broke the law

-Reagan helped the contra rebels without congressional approval
- Reagan went forward with his plan without approval
- This was of course illegal
- Violates the constitution.
- Reagan is a abusing his powers

- he learned from Nixons mistake and had all the documents on paper rather than on tapes.
- Reagan shredded all the documents about the incident

Absolutely nothing

Both President Nixon and Reagan got away with their crimes or walked away Scott free