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Rose Mary Woods, the loyal secretary to US President Richard dies in a nursing home in Alliance, Ohio at the age of 87. During the investigation of the Watergate Hotel Break-in Scandal, she claimed to have "inadvertently erased" part of a crucial Oval Office tape. The tape segment was a 18 ½ minu ... |
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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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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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U.S. President Nixon signs a bill to raise the minimum wage to $2.30 an hour. |
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U.S. House of Representatives begins determining the grounds for impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. |
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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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US President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill to lower the US speed limit to 55 MPH, thus conserving gasoline during the 1973 energy crisis. |
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US President Richard Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court that it was she who accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
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US President Richard M. Nixon tells the Associated Press that "... people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook." |
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The US Congress votes to override President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. |
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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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Embattled U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman over the Watergate Break-in 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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U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law.
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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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U.S. President Richard Nixon orders Operation Linebacker II, a full-scale bombing campaign against North Vietnam's cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. The North Vietnamese returned to the negotiating table and the Paris Peace Accords were signed less than one month later. |
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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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