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nixon being shady
Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals in congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices. Nixon reportedly orders the White House taping system disconnected.
Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor -
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water gate
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Richard Nixon becomes president
Richard Milhous Nixon, the 55-year-old former vice president who lost the presidency for the Republicans in 1960. He reclaims it by defeating Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in U.S. history. -
Nixon approves a plan
Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic intelligence gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. He has second thoughts a few days later and takes back his approval. -
New York Times starts publishing the pentagon papers
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers. the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post will begin publishing the papers later in the week. -
The white house plumbers unit
The White House “plumbers” unit named for their orders to plug leaks in the administration. Burglarizes a psychiatrist’s office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg. The former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. -
five men arrested
Five men one of whom says he used to work for the CIA. they are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex. -
burgular gets magic money from nixon
A $25,000 cashier’s check apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign ended up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar, The Washington Post reports. -
sabatoge
FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying. It sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, -
and he wins
Nixon is reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history, taking more than 60 percent of the vote and crushing the Democratic nominee, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota. -
resined staff and fired staff
Nixon’s top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired. -
nxon resigns
Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the country’s highest office. He will later pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case.
