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Nixon Election
Richard M. Nixon is elected in a land slide victory -
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Watergate Era
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Pentagon Papers
The NY Times begins to publish the top-secret Pentagon Papers -
Enimies List
Nixon's Enemy list is started, to sabotage potential political enimies -
Physchiartrist Office
President Nixon's plumbers vandalize a physchiatrists office to find files on Daniel Ellsburg -
Watergate
Five Plumbers are arrested in the Watergate apartment-office building, and Democratic headquaters. -
GOP linked to Watergate
A GOP security aide is accused of being a Watergate burglars -
Un-Accounted Check
A $25,000 check, susposed to be for the Nixon caimpaign ends up in one of the Watergate burglar's bank account -
Suspicion Rises
FBI agents find out that the Watergate break-in is all part of the Nixon Re-electon caimpaign. -
No More Recording
Richard Nixon abolishes the White House taping system -
Overturning the Tapes
The Supreme Court rules unanimously that Richard Nixon over turn the tape recording s of over of 64 White House conversations -
Charges
Richard Nixon is charged with obstruction of justice. -
Richard Nixon Resigns
Richard Nixon becomes the first president in US history to resign. -
Ford Resumes
President Gerald Ford itakes the place of Richard Nixon, becoming the first man to be made president soley by the vote of Congress