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Nixon's Birth
Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California, to Frank and Hannah Milhous Nixon. -
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Richard Nixon's Life and Times (inc. Watergate)
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Nixon's Vice Presidency
Richard Nixon serves as vice president to Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Nixon loses presidential election to Kennedy
GOP presidential nominee - defeated by John F. Kennedy -
Loses Governor of California to Jerry Brown
Runs for governor of California – defeated by Jerry Brown -
Nixon becomes President of the United States of America
Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election -
Nixon goes to China
Visits People's Republic of China - a foriegn policy triumph. He returned to America in February 28. -
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Investigations in the Watergate complex.
Howard Hunt makes repeated demands on Nixon’s associates for hush money for himself and others arrested in the Watergate break-in . Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate the break-in and learn enough to suspect that the burglars are connected to the White House and that hush money is likely being paid to them. -
Fives burglars arrested for attempting to wiretap the Democratic National Committee chairman's telephone
Five burglars are arrested in the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex. They were attempting to place a wiretap on the telephone of the Committee chairman. -
Fives burglars indicted
A grand jury indicts the five burglars and two accessories for conspiracy, burglary, and violation of federal wiretapping laws. -
Nixon re-elected as President of the United States of America
Nixon re-elected by a sweeping margin, Electoral College votes 520-17 -
Sam Ervin begins investigation of break in
