Watergate Scandal by sara shunk

Watergate

Jun 17, 1972

Five men, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.

Watergate Burglarspart 1

Jun 17, 1972

Bernard L. Barker – a realtor from Miami, Florida. Former Central Intelligence Agency operative. Barker was said to have been involved in the Bay of Pigs incident in 1962.
Virgilio R. Gonzales – a locksmith from Miami, Florida. Gonzalez was a refugee from Cuba, following Castro’s takeover.

Watergate Burglars Part 2

Jun 17, 1972

James W. McCord – a security co-ordinator for the Republican National Committee and the Committee for the Re-election of the President. McCord was also a former FBI and CIA agent. He was dismissed from his RNC and CREEP positions the day after the break-in.
Eugenio R. Martinez – worked for Barker’s Miami real estate firm. He had CIA connections and was an anti-Castro Cuban exile. Click here to read Martinez’s account of the burglary.

Watergate Burglars Part 3

Jun 17, 1972

Frank A. Sturgis – another associate of Barker from Miami, he also had CIA connections and involvement in anti-Castro activities.

NIxon

Nov 11, 1972

Nixon is reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history.

Guilty

Jan 30, 1973

Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty.

White House

Apr 30, 1973

H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.

Nixon Knew

Jun 3, 1973

John Dean has told Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon 35 times.

Found

Jun 13, 1973

Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office. It was about Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist,

Refuses

Jul 23, 1973

Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor

Can't Explain

Dec 7, 1973

The White House can’t explain an 18 1/2 -minute gap in one of the subpoenaed tapes

White house

Apr 30, 1974

The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee, but they wanted the tapes

Rejection

Jul 24, 1974

The Supreme Court rules unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations, so then they decide to reject the president’s claims of executive privilege.

Passes

Jul 27, 1974

House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment

Resign

Aug 8, 1974

Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the country’s highest office. He then pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case.