Richard M. Nixon,
the Imperial Presidency,
        and Watergate

Richard M. Nixon
     -Jerry Voorhis
     -Murray Chotner

House Un-American Activities Committee
     -HUAC 
     -Whittaker Chambers
     -Alger Hiss
          -"Pumpkin Papers"

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Dwight D. Eisenhower
      -Checkers Speech

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
     -"Missile Gap"

Lyndon B. Johnson
     -Hubert Humphrey
     -George Wallace

Daniel Ellsberg
     -"Pentagon Papers"

Imperial Presidency

Committee to Re-Elect the President
     -CREEP (1972)

Watergate

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
        Nixon campaigned
      on a "Law and Order"
   Platform before Watergate