President Nixon Pledges to Get to the Bottom of Watergate
Will Continue “working toward the goals the American people elected us to achieve”.
The Watergate scandal broke in early 1973 when former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate break-in. It gathered steam on April 30 when Nixon’s top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, resigned over...
The Watergate scandal broke in early 1973 when former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate break-in. It gathered steam on April 30 when Nixon’s top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, resigned over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean was fired. On May 17, 1973, the Senate Watergate Committee began its nationally televised hearings and two days later independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox was appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety.
This was the crisis atmosphere when Nixon, just days later, wrote Brown defending himself and saying he would get to the bottom of the scandal. Typed Letter Signed as President, on White House letterhead, Washington, May 24, 1973. “Of all the letters I have received in recent weeks, yours had special meaning for me, coming as it does from one with your long experience in political and public life…Both of us have known our share of boos along with the cheers. Now, of course, the developments of these past months have posed a very great test of our Administration. But as I have repeatedly stated, we shall not fail to bring this entire matter to a full and just resolution. At the same time, we will not be deterred from working toward the goals the American people elected us to achieve. Your message of support and goodwill at this time renews my confidence that we will meet this test…”

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