Watergate timeline

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Events
Watergate
(timeline)
Pentagon Papers Watergate burglaries Watergate tapes Saturday Night Massacre United States v. Nixon New York Times Co. v. United States
People
Ben Bagdikian Carl Bernstein Archibald Cox John Dean Deep Throat Daniel Ellsberg Senator Mike Gravel E. Howard Hunt G. Gordon Liddy John N. Mitchell Richard Nixon John Sirica Watergate Seven Bob Woodward
Groups
CREEP White House Plumbers Senate Watergate Committee List of people connected with Watergate

Timeline of the Watergate scandal —Regarding attempts by the sitting U.S. President to discredit an anti-war whistleblower of official capacity, and upon exposure of related improprieties, to use the powers of office to silence political and legal opposition.

1964 - U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins.
Daniel Ellsberg begins work at The Pentagon.
Ellsberg acquires the Pentagon Papers
Ellsberg gives copies to Neil Sheehan
June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers. The Washington Post soon follows
Richard Nixon reacts with outrage
September 9, 1971: The "White House Plumbers" burglarizes the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, seeking damaging information.
June 17, 1972: "White House Plumbers" are arrested at 2:30 a.m. in process of burgularizing (planting surveillance bugs) the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel.
Independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety.
May 18, 1973: Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings
June 3, 1973: John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he has discussed the cover-up with Nixon at least 35 times
July 13, 1973: Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals that all conversations and telephone calls in Nixon’s office have been taped since 1971
July 18, 1973: Nixon orders White House taping systems disconnected
July 23, 1973: Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapings to Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor
October 20, 1973: "Saturday Night Massacre" - Nixon fires special prosecutor Cox and others.
U.S. Supreme Court overturns suppression of free press.
April 30, 1974: White House releases edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes but the House Judiciary Committee insists the actual tapes must be turned over
June 15, 1974: Woodward and Bernstein's book All the President's Men is published by Simon & Schuster (ISBN 0-671-21781-X)
Congress moves to impeach Nixon
- July 27 to July 30, 1974: House Judiciary Committee passes articles of Impeachment
- Early August 1974: A previously unknown tape from June 23, 1972 (recorded a few days after the break-in) documents Nixon and Haldeman formulating a plan to block investigations.
- Key Republican Senators tell Nixon that enough votes existed to convict him.
August 9, 1974: Nixon resigns presidency. Gerald Ford becomes President.
September 8, 1974: President Ford ends investigations by granting Nixon a pardon.
U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends.
- December 1974: the US Congress cuts off all military funding to South Vietnam.
- April 30, 1975: The war ends with the Fall of Saigon and the collapse of South Vietnam.
1976: The movie All the President's Men starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and Hal Holbrook is released.
22 April 1994: Richard Nixon dies.
May 21, 2005: Deep Throat, secret source to Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reveals his identity: W. Mark Felt, a former Associate Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation,