Watergate

By 109904

  • Inauguration

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

  • Arrested

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

  • FBI Suspicion

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

  • Saturday Night Massacre

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

  • 1200 Pages

    1200 Pages
    The white house releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary committee

  • 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

  • Impeachment

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