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Attempted burglery at the Democratic National Committee
Early that morning several burglars were arrested in the DNC office in the Watergate building in Washington D. C. They had attempted to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. -
Burglar Trials
Trials of the Watergate 7 (Barker, Gonzalez, Hunt, Liddy, Martinez, McCord, and Sturgis) begin in Washington by Judge John Sirica. -
Hunt pleads guilty
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Barker, Gonzalez, Martinez, ande Sturgis plead guilty
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Nixon's 1st Watergate Speach
"In recent months, members of my Administration and officials of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President— including some of my closest friends and most trusted aides—have been charged with involvement in what has come to he known as the Watergate affair. These include charges of illegal activity during and preceding the 1972 Presidential election and charges that responsible officials participated in efforts to cover up that illegal activity." -
Nixon refuses to turn over Presidential tapes
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Nixon's 2nd Watergate Speach
"But as the weeks have gone by, it has become clear that both the hearings themselves and some of the commentaries on them have become increasingly absorbed in an effort to implicate the President personally in the illegal activities that took place." -
All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward wrote this book about the Watergate Scandal. -
United States vs Nixon
Nixon ordered to give up tapes. -
Nixon Resigns
Gerald Ford takes over Presidency
