Watergate

By Kaitlyn McRae

  • Evidence emerges

    Evidence emerges
    Evidence emerges that the break-in was realated to Nixon's re-election campaign

  • CRP

    CRP
    The Committee for the Re-Election of the President (also known as the Committee to Re-elect the President), officially abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration.

  • Watergate

    Watergate
    (senseless and unnecessary) 5 arrested for breaking into Democratic campaign headquarters.

    1.Watergate Hotel and Office complex, Washington D.C
    2. All employed by the CRP (committee to re-elect the president)

  • Evidence

    Evidence
    Evidence is discovered that Nixon was involbed in the covering up of the Watergate.

  • Scandals aired

    Scandals aired
    The senate begins hearings about the scandal that are broadcast on national television.

  • Tape information leaked

    Tape information leaked
    A former Nixon secretary tells the Senate that Nixon has taped all conversations in his office since 1971

  • Nixon refuses

    Nixon refuses
    Nixon refuses to turn over the tapes he has recorded in his office

  • Nixon has to turn in tapes

    Nixon has to turn in tapes
    The Supreme Court rules Nixon must turn over the taopes of his conversations

  • Impeachment articles

    Impeachment articles
    The first articles of impeachment are passed against Nixon

  • Nixon resigns

    Nixon resigns
    Realizing he will probably be removed from office, Nixon resigns from the presidency