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Nixon, the 55-year-old former vice president who lost the presidency for the Republicans in 1960, reclaims it by defeating Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.
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approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies
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The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers
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The White House “plumbers” burglarizes a psychiatrist’s office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers
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Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex
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attorney general John Mitchell, head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
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$25,000 cashier’s check, apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign
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John Mitchell, while serving as attorney general, controlled a secret Republican fund
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FBI agents establish that the Watergate break in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, the Post reports
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Nixon is reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history
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Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy
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H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal
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Watergate committee begins its nationally televised hearings
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