The "-gate" that started it all
Watergate is perhaps the most famous scandal of the past century. Even those who don't know the details have heard of it, and every scandal or conspiracy since has been compared—Deflategate, Pizzagate, and so on. But what about Watergate made it so compelling to millions of people? Read on to find out.
- Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.); chairman
- Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.); vice chairman
- Edward J. Gurney (R-Fla.)
- Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii)
- Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M)
- Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.)
- Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.)
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The Major Players
- Alexander Haig, Nixon's civilian chief of staff (1973—74)
- Charles Ruff, Watergate special prosecutor
- Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox
- Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworkski
- Senior Sssistant to Archibald Cox James Vorenberg
- Edward Levi, former attorney general
- James St. Clair, Nixon's Defense Attorney
- Richard C. Kleindienst, Nixon's attorney general
- John Ehrlichman
- Bebe Rebozo, Nixon friend
- Maurice H. Stans
- John Newton Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection committee
- Herman Talmadge, member of the Senate Watergate Committee
- Elliot Lee Richardson, Nixon attorney general
- Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher
- Mary McGrory, journalist
- Maurice Hubert Stans, finance chairman for Nixon's reelection campaign
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Robert Bork
- Jack Anderson
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