Help with the book "All The President's Men"?

Question

I have to read this book over the summer for AP United States History and I'm having trouble understanding it.

I don't want to take the easy way out and watch the movie but when I read the book I barely understand and have trouble following all the names throughout the book, any solid advice?

Answer 1

All the President's Men was a true life book about a break in at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. I'm not sure what you mean with trouble following the names. I'm going by the actual event as I remember it

Nixon was running for re-election against McGovern. McGovern was the Democrat Presidential nominee. The Democrat national party had an office in the Watergate Hotel.  

One night, a security guard noticed some men with flashlights in the office. They were later referred to as "The plumbers" as they were hired to find and expose "leaks" coming out of the re-election committee. The guard called police, and they were arrested charged with burglary and phone wire tapping. G Gordon Liddy, headed up the plumbers which turned out to be part of the re-election committee for Nixon. E Howard Hunt, Jeb Stuart Magruder, were all involved with the plumbers and associated with the break in.

The biggest name to remember, actually not a name, but somebody referred to as "deep throat". He was a mysterious figure who never revealed himself. He secretly met with two reporters from the Washington Post, Woodward and Bernstein. In the shadows, Deep Throat revealed the cover up, and that it went all the way to the President. The reporters revealed everything in a newspaper story, and were credited with bringing down the President.

A central figure was John Dean. Magruder, Hunt, and Liddy actually orchestrated and ordered the break in. President Nixon knew nothing about it. John Dean was a council on the President's staff. He did not order the break in, however he masterminded a cover-up.  The cover-up, not the break in itself, was what Nixon was guilty of not coming forward with, when he became aware of it.

The Senate formed a an investigation committee headed by Sam Irvin. John Dean spilled the beans, revealing everything. the Plumbers, Magruder, Liddy, and Hunt all confessed, and received prison sentences. President Nixon resigned as a result of an impending impeachment by the House, and a sure conviction by the Senate. That's how I remember it anyway.

Answer 2

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