Watergate Scandal

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Richardson, appointed a
special prosecutor, Harvard Law School profesor Archibald Cox, to conduct a
full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in. In May of 1973, the Senate
Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings, with Senator Sam
Ervin of North Carolina as chairman. A series of startling revelations followed.
Dean testified that Mitchell had ordered the break-in and that a major attempt
was under way to hide White House involvement. He claimed that the president had
authorized payments to the burglars to keep them quiet. The Nixon
administration immediately denied this assertion.
The testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield unlocked the
entire investigation pertaining to White House tapes. On July 16, 1973,
Butterfield told the committee, on nationwide television, that Nixon had ordered
a taping system installed in the White House to automatically record all
conversations; what the president said and when he said it could be ...

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