Watergate Presidential Scandal

By Jeffrid18

  • Richard Nixon

    55 year old Vice President who lost the presidency for republicans in 1960.

  • Nixon approves

    Nixon approves the plan for greatly expanding domestic intelligence gathering the fbi cia and others

  • The White House "plumbers"

    A unit to plug leak in the administration.

  • Five men

    one of who 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

  • Nixon is reelected

    reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history, taking more than 60 percent of the vote and crushing the Democratic nominee Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota.

  • Nixon top white staffers

    Nixon’s top White House staffers H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.

  • Nixon become president

    Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the country’s highest office. He will later pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case.