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After approving an expansion to CIA, FBI, and other intelligence agencies, he has second thoughts and pulls back his approval.
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Daniel Ellsburg leaked the Pentagon Papers, which contained unknown secrets of the War in Vietnam.
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The "plumbers", a group of people formed to "plug leaks" in the administration, sent to dig up dirt about Daniel Ellsburg from his psychiatrist's office
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Five men from CREEP were arrested while trying to bug the Watergate Building
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FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from the campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort,
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Nixon wins a second term with a landslide, obtaining over 60% of the popular vote and thoroughly defeating Sen. George McGovern.
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Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals that Nixon has been taping conversations and phone calls since 1971
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President Nixon refused to turn over the tapes of his recorded conversations
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After a charge of income tax evasion, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns.
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After refusing manuscripts as sufficient evidence and a unanimous vote by the Supreme Court, Nixon is required to turn over all tapes, rejecting "executive privilege."
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After finding overwhelming evidence on the reliquished tapes, Nixon is charged with obstruction of judgement, and the process of impeachment starts.
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After being charged with obstruction of justice, and urging from Congress, Nixon became the first president to resign the position. nixon was later pardons for his crimes by the newly-inaugurated president Gerald Ford.
