Nixon Watergate Timeline

By Dzimmerman20

  • Inauguraton

    Inauguraton
    Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president of America.

  • 5 men arrested

    5 men arrested
    5 men are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Commitee

  • FBI Suspision

    FBI Suspision
    FBI agents establish that the Watergate break in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage.

  • Nixon Reelected

    Nixon Reelected
    Nixon is reelected in one of the largest landslide victories in political history.

  • Convicting Enemies

    Convicting Enemies
    G.Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy.

  • Saturday Night Massacre

    Saturday Night Massacre
    Nixon fires Archbald Cox. Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus resign.

  • Im not a crook

    Im not a crook
    Nixon declares, "I'm not a crook," maintaining his innocence in the Watergate case

  • Gap in tapes

    Gap in tapes
    The white house can't explain an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the subpoenaed tpes.

  • 1,200 pages

    1,200 pages
    The white house releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary commitee

  • Executive privilege

    Executive privilege
    Supreme Court rules unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations, rejecting the president's claims of executive privilege

  • Richard Resigns

    Richard Resigns
    Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign.

  • Impeachment

    Impeachment
    House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice