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* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
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* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1975 and Watergate
For example, the August 12, 1974 Doonesbury strip awarded a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of the Watergate scandal.
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On February 21, 1975, Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, which he dubbed the " White House horrors ".
* Sam Ervin, ( 1896 – 1985 ), U. S. Senator from 1954 to 1975 ; famed Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973.
Abraham can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico ( 1973 ), also as the bad guy in one 3rd Season episode of Kojak, he played a cab driver in the theatrical version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ), a mechanic in the theatrical version of The Sunshine Boys ( 1975 ) and in All the President's Men ( 1976 ), as one of the police officers who arrests the Watergate burglars in the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters.
1965 to 1975 was a decade of constant change at UCC ; global and local cultural influences such as the Vietnam War, Yorkville, Woodstock, changing fashion trends, rock bands, and Watergate, collided head-on with the conservative, traditional culture and environment at UCC.
On October 7, 1975, the Watergate Special Prosecutor informed Gray that the last Watergate-related investigation of him had been formally closed.
He spent his days in the offices of the Watergate Special Prosecutor Jaworski, and testifying in the trial of Watergate conspirators Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson, which concluded on January 1, 1975.
McGrory won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1975, for her articles about the Watergate scandal.
He gained national recognition with a series of comedy albums during the Watergate scandal, and did his first public television show in 1975.
However, Nixon was driven from office due to the Watergate scandal in 1974 and when the North Vietnamese did begin their final offensive early in 1975, the United States Congress ( controlled by the Democratic Party ) refused to appropriate the funds needed by the South Vietnamese, who collapsed completely.
Following Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate Scandal, Morton continued in his post in the Gerald Ford administration until 1975, when he was nominated to serve as Secretary of Commerce.
In 1975, in the wake of both the Watergate scandal and the exposure of COINTELPRO, the Church Committee was formed to investigate overstepping on the part of federal law inforcement and intelligence gathering agencies.
After a long delay blamed on the Watergate scandal, the FRE became federal law on January 2, 1975, when President Ford signed the Act to Establish Rules of Evidence for Certain Courts and Proceedings,,.
In 1975, after moving into private practice, Smaltz grabbed headlines when he and another lawyer accused Watergate prosecutors of misconduct and persuaded a judge to dismiss two indictments against Richard Nixon's personal tax lawyer.
Linde, " Replacing a President: Rx for a 21st Century Watergate ," 43 George Washington Law Review 384 ( 1975 )
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