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Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor fired by U.S. President Richard Nixon for refusing to curtail his Watergate investigation dies at the age 92. |
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H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff, is released from jail.
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Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis, in a interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, claims that the purpose of the Watergate break-in was to determine if Howard Hughes was financing for the Democratic National Committee. |
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Richard Nixon sells his memoirs for $2 million. |
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U.S. President Richard M. Nixon resigns during the Watergate Scandal. |
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Vice President Gerald Ford sworn in as President of the United States to replace Richard M. Nixon. |
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Ronald Reagan, who had publicly supported Richard Nixon through Watergate, finally concedes that Nixon had deceived America. |
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The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend first article of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon. |
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Ruling that executive privilege does not apply to Watergate evidence, the U.S. Supreme Court orders the White House to honor Leon Jaworski's subpoena of tapes and documents. |
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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee opens public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon over the Watergate Scandal. |
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President Richard Nixon releases edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the Watergate Scandal. |
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A Gallup poll shows that 79% of American voters are in favor of impeaching U.S. President Richard Nixon. |
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President Nixon refuses to comply with subpoenas calling for him to hand over White House documents. |
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Investigators looking into the Watergate Break-in scandal find that two of Nixon's surrendered oval office tapes are missing. |
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Spiro T. Agnew resigns as U.S. Vice President over his income tax evasion. |
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White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals to a stunned Ervin Committee and American public that President Nixon has been secretly recording all Oval Office conversations. This revelation initiates a constitutional crisis over the president's right to keep the tapes secret under "executive priv ... |
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Televised hearings over the Watergate Scandal begin in the United States Senate. |
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California Gov. Reagan defends embattled President Richard M. Nixon in the midst of the Watergate scandal. |
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U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House aids HR Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned over the Watergate Scandal. |
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The acting director of the FBI, L. Patrick Gray, resigns after confessing that he destroyed evidence related to the Watergate break-in. |
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The New York Times runs a story that Nixon White House aides John Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder had previous knowledge about Watergate break-in. |
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Nixon tells Attorney General John N. Mitchell, "I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the 5th Amendment, cover-up or anything else, if it'll save it--save the plan." |
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The U.S. Senate establishes the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to be chaired by Senator Same Ervin. |
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Richard M. Nixon fires CIA Director Richard Helms, over the Watergate scandal. |
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Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt pleads guilty to all six charges against him concerning conspiracy to break into Democratic National Headquarters. |
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E. Howard Hunt's wife dies in a airplane crash in Chicago, IL with $10,000 in $100 bills on her person. A CIA employee from 1949 to 1970, Hunt organized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building as well as the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. |
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U.S. President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman are recorded in a discussion concerning the use of Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. |
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Security guard Frank Wills reports the appearance of tape holding open a stairway door at the Watergate Hotel.. Soon after the Washington DC police capture five burglars in DNC headquarters and Nixon's Watergate Scandal begins. |
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Watergate investigators learn of the eighteen and a half minute gap in one of the Nixon oval office tapes. Analysis will eventually show that the erasure was deliberate and not an accident on the part of Nixon secretary Rosemary Woods. |
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