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Nixon’s presidency
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Nixon signs a Wage-Price Controls Bill
Nixon signed a Wage-Price Controls Bill, that extended his authority to impose restraints on wages, salaries, and rents for a year. -
Watergate scandal begins
Police seized accomplices inside the Democratic Headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate Hotel. They confiscated cameras, wiretapping materials, and $2,300. -
Nixon asks for the resignation of The entire administration
Nixon asked for the resignation of all agency directors, presidential appointees, and federal department heads. -
Nixon takes responsibility for Watergate
Nixon admitted responsibility for the Watergate affair on television, but he continued to assert no prior knowledge of it. -
Nixon refuses tapes to Senate Watergate Committee
Nixon claimed executive privilege, And refused to turn over tapes to the Senate Watergate Committee. -
U.S. v Nixon
The Supreme Court ordered that Nixon was to turn over sixty-four tapes to the Senate Watergate Committee. The tapes disclosed Nixon's participation in the cover-up, of the Watergate burglary.