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Nixion
Nixion is elected as president of the United States in one of the closest elections in history -
The plumbers
five buglers caught trying to bug the Watergate hotel and complex were the democratic national committee was -
The check
A $25,000 cashier’s check, apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar. -
Nixion Reelected
Nixon is reelected into office crushing the democrates -
Memo
Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers. -
The tapes
Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals in congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices. -
Nixion in denial
Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor. -
Saturday night massacre
Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon fires Archibald Cox and abolishes the office of the special prosecutor. Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus resign. Pressure for impeachment mounts in Congress. -
The gap
The White House can’t explain an 18 1/2 -minute gap in one of the tapes. Chief of staff Alexander Haig says one theory is that “some sinister force” erased the segment. -
Manuscrips
The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee, but the committee insists that the tapes themselves must be turned over. -
Nixion must hand over tapes
The Supreme Court rules unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations, rejecting the president’s claims of executive privilege. -
Nixion resigned
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.
