Major events of 1972
June 17: Five men were arrested for trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
June 19: A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, the Washington Post reports. Former attorney general John Mitchell, has of the the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
August 1: A $25,000 cashier's check apparently earmarked for the Nixon Campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar, according the Washington Post reporters.
September 29: John Mitchell controlled a secret republican fund used to finance widespread intelligence against the Democrats.
October 10: FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort.
November 11: Nixon was reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history, taking more than 60% of the vote and crushing the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern. - Elizabeth C.
June 19: A GOP security aide is among the Watergate burglars, the Washington Post reports. Former attorney general John Mitchell, has of the the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation.
August 1: A $25,000 cashier's check apparently earmarked for the Nixon Campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar, according the Washington Post reporters.
September 29: John Mitchell controlled a secret republican fund used to finance widespread intelligence against the Democrats.
October 10: FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort.
November 11: Nixon was reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history, taking more than 60% of the vote and crushing the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern. - Elizabeth C.
Major events of 1973
January 8: Watergate break-in trial opens
January 30: Former Nixon aides: G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty, but the mysteries remain.
April 30: Nixon's top White House staffers H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and General Richard Kleindienst resigned over the scandal. John Dean, the White House counsel was fired.
May 18: the Senate Watergate committee begins it nationally televised hearings. Attorney General, Elliot Richardson taps former solicitor general Archibald Cox as the Justice Department's special prosecutor for Watergate.
June 3: John Dean told Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon at least 35 times
June 13 : Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist
July 7: Nixon informed the Senate Committee that he will not appear to testify nor grant access to presidential files
July 13: Alexander Butterfield, revealed a congressional testimony that since 1972 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices.
July 18: Nixon disconnects the White House taping system
July 23: Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor
October 20: 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. The pressure for impeachment mounts in Congress.
October 23: President Nixon agrees to hand over tapes to comply with subpoena
November 17: Nixon declares that he is not a crook and maintains his innocence in the Watergate case
November 21: Senate committee announces the discovery of 18 1/2 minute gap on the tape of Nixon
December 7: the White House can't explain an 18 1/2 minute gap in one of the subpoenaed tapes. Chief of staff Alexander Haig states that one theory is that some sinister force erased the segment. - Elizabeth C.
January 30: Former Nixon aides: G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. were convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty, but the mysteries remain.
April 30: Nixon's top White House staffers H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and General Richard Kleindienst resigned over the scandal. John Dean, the White House counsel was fired.
May 18: the Senate Watergate committee begins it nationally televised hearings. Attorney General, Elliot Richardson taps former solicitor general Archibald Cox as the Justice Department's special prosecutor for Watergate.
June 3: John Dean told Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon at least 35 times
June 13 : Watergate prosecutors find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman describing in detail the plans to burglarize the office of Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist
July 7: Nixon informed the Senate Committee that he will not appear to testify nor grant access to presidential files
July 13: Alexander Butterfield, revealed a congressional testimony that since 1972 Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices.
July 18: Nixon disconnects the White House taping system
July 23: Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor
October 20: 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. The pressure for impeachment mounts in Congress.
October 23: President Nixon agrees to hand over tapes to comply with subpoena
November 17: Nixon declares that he is not a crook and maintains his innocence in the Watergate case
November 21: Senate committee announces the discovery of 18 1/2 minute gap on the tape of Nixon
December 7: the White House can't explain an 18 1/2 minute gap in one of the subpoenaed tapes. Chief of staff Alexander Haig states that one theory is that some sinister force erased the segment. - Elizabeth C.
Major events of 1974
February 6: the House voted to authorized the Judiciary committee to investigate grounds for impeaching president Nixon
March 1: indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate seven"
April 16: Special Prosecutor Jaworski issued subpoenas for 64 more Nixon tapes
April 29: President Nixon addressed the nation responding to the House Judiciary Committee's Subpoena for additional Presidential Tape Recordings.
April 30: 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
May 9: the House Judiciary Committee began impeachments hearings
July 24: 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
July 27: House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice
August 8: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice president Gerald R. Ford takes his place. He will alter pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case. - Elizabeth C.
March 1: indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate seven"
April 16: Special Prosecutor Jaworski issued subpoenas for 64 more Nixon tapes
April 29: President Nixon addressed the nation responding to the House Judiciary Committee's Subpoena for additional Presidential Tape Recordings.
April 30: 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
May 9: the House Judiciary Committee began impeachments hearings
July 24: 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
July 27: House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice
August 8: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice president Gerald R. Ford takes his place. He will alter pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case. - Elizabeth C.