Watergate Scandal: Timeline

By NeatCorndog

  • Watergate Break-In

  • 5 Watergate Burglars Indicted

  • Watergate Burglary Trial Begins

  • Washington Post Connects Break-In to the Cover-Up

  • Archibald Cox Appointed Special Prosecutor

  • Vice President Spiro Angew Resigns

    Vice President: Spiro Angew.
    New Vice President is Gerald R. ford

  • Saturday Night Massacre

  • "I am not a crook" Speech

    By President Richard Nixon

  • 18 1/2 Minute Gap Discovered

  • House Votes to Start Investigating to Impeach Nixon

  • House Judiciary Committee Begins Impeachment Hearings

  • The "Smoking Gun" Tape

  • President Richard M. Nixon resigns