Watergate Scandal

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  • Nixon Wins

    Nixon Wins
    Richard Nixon wins presidency

  • New York Times

    New York Times
    The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers

  • The White House Plumbers

    The White House Plumbers
    named for their orders to plug leaks in the administration – burglarizes a psychiatrist’s office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

  • Five men are arrested

    Five men are arrested
    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.

  • A $25,000 cashier’s check

    A $25,000 cashier’s check
    apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.

  • FBI Raid

    FBI Raid
    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.

  • Richard Nixon Resigns

    Richard Nixon Resigns
    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.