night. 1972–1974 and beyond: Watergate During and following the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon, Cavett's guests included: Barry Goldwater, senior Republican Senator from Arizona G. Gordon Liddy, former FBI agent, one of the head White House Plumbers one of the original Watergate Seven Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General succeeding John N. Mitchell and followed by Elliot Richardson Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post metropolitan writers and Watergate investigative reporters Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News anchor who aired segments on Watergate using Woodward and Bernstein's Washington Post coverage John Ehrlichman, Nixon chief domestic policy advisor and one of the later Watergate Seven Jeb Magruder, CRP coordinator turned witness John Dean, Nixon White House counsel and cover-up coordinator turned star witness Members of the Senate Watergate Committee in charge of the Watergate hearings Chairman Sam Ervin (D-NC) Vice chairman Howard Baker (R-TN) and members Lowell Weicker (R-CT), Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA) in the Senate Caucus Room with an audience Gore Vidal Gerald Ford, House Minority Leader, Vice President following Spiro Agnew's resignation and President following Nixon's resignation Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State It later emerged from the Nixon White House tapes that Cavett was viewed as an enemy by Nixon and thus had staff who had taxes audited in retaliation. Cavett's Watergate coverage and interviews were later spotlighted in a PBS documentary called Dick Cavett's Watergate featuring Cavett, Woodward, Bernstein, Dean and former Nixon Presidential Library director Timothy Naftali. March 31, 1972: Chad Everett vs. Lily Tomlin During the taping of this episode, actor Chad Everett upset feminist actress/comedian Lily Tomlin. Tomlin became so enraged when Everett referred to his wife as "my property" that she stormed off the set and refused to return. June 27, 1972: Angela Davis Angela Davis, an activist who was associated with the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s, cancelled a scheduled appearance on June 27, 1972. The basis for the controversy was the continuing debate over the SST (supersonic transport) system. ABC had insisted on inviting either William F. Buckley, Jr. or William Rusher of the conservative National Review magazine to have a balanced viewpoint, but Davis declined. 1972: Rogers Morton A show with Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton resulted in nine animals being added to the endangered species list after Cavett commented on them. June 12, 1973: Marlon Brando