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The Watergate scandal was a significant political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation. It originated from attempts by the Nixon administration to conceal its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee ...
- Timeline of The Watergate Scandal
September 15, 1972: Hunt, Liddy, and the Watergate burglars...
- Watergate Office Building
Map of the Watergate complex, showing the former Howard...
- James W. McCord Jr
McCord asserted that the White House knew of and approved...
- E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23,...
- U.S. Senate Watergate Committee
The Senate Watergate Committee, known officially as the...
- 18½-Minute Portion
Nixon White House tapes. United States v. Nixon. Audio...
- Timeline of The Watergate Scandal
- February 1971
- June 13, 1971
- 1971
- January 1972
- May 28, 1972
- June 17, 1972
- June 20, 1972
- August 1, 1972
- August 30, 1972
- September 29, 1972
Richard Nixon orders the installation of a secret taping system that records all conversations in the Oval Office, his Executive Office Building office, and his Camp David office and on selected telephones in these locations.
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Postwill begin publishing the papers later in the week.
Nixon and his staff recruit a team of ex-FBI and CIA operatives, later referred to as “the Plumbers” to investigate the leaked publication of the Pentagon Papers. On September 9, the "plumbers" break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, in an unsuccessful attempt to steal psychiatric records to smear Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analy...
One of the “plumbers,” G. Gordon Liddy, is transferred to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), where he obtains approval from Attorney General John Mitchell for a wide-ranging plan of espionage against the Democratic Party.
Liddy’s team breaks into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. for the first time, bugging the telephones of staffers.
Five men are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. Among the items found in their possession were bugging devices, thousands of dollars in cash and rolls of film. Days later, the White House denied involvement in the break-in.
Bob Woodward has his first of several meetings with the source and informant known as “Deep Throat,” whose identity, W. Mark Felt, the associate director of the FBI, was only revealed three decades later.
An article in The Washington Postreports that a check for $25,000 earmarked for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign was deposited into the bank account of one of the men arrested for the Watergate break-in. Over the course of nearly two years, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein continue to file stories about the Watergate scandal, relying on many source...
Nixon announces that John Dean has completed an internal investigation into the Watergate break-in, and has found no evidence of White House involvement.
The Washington Post reports that while serving as Attorney General, John Mitchell had controlled a secret fund to finance intelligence gathering against Democrats. When Carl Bernstein calls Mitchell for comment, Mitchell threatens both Bernstein and Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Post. The Postprints the threat.
Jun 15, 2012 · On June 17, 1972, five burglars were arrested during a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. According to news reports of ...
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May 30, 2017 · The trial for the Watergate break-in begins. Jan. 30, 1973 G. Gordon Liddy, a former Nixon aide, and James McCord, a one-time Nixon aide and former CIA operative, are convicted for their role in ...
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