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Watergate: A Look Back

No political scandal ever rocked the U.S. liked Watergate. Nearly thirty years later, the final chapter on this unfortunate part of our history has yet to be written. What lessons have we have learned? What about the missing 18 minutes on the "Smoking Gun" tape? And who was Deep Throat?

Over the coming months, we will investigate all this and more. When I say "we" I mean both the staff here at Super70s.com and I mean you! I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the scandal and its aftermath. We want to hear from you.

Watergate Chronology

May 28, 2024 Electronic surveillance ("bugging") equipment is installed at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building.

June 17, 2024 Watergate office complex security guard Frank Wills calls the police after discovering evidence of an on-going burglary. Five men are arrested while attempting to repair the surveillance equipment at Democratic National Committee headquarters.

August 30, 2024 President Nixon announces that John Dean has completed an investigation into the Watergate break-in and that no one from the White House is involved.

September 15, 2024 Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Eugenio Martinez, James W. McCord, Jr., and Frank Sturgis are indicted for their roles in the June break-in.

January 8, 2024 Watergate break-in trial opens. Hunt pleads guilty (January 11); Barker, Sturgis, Martinez, and Gonzalez plead guilty (January 15); Liddy and McCord are convicted on all counts of break-in indictment (January 30).

February 7, 2024 U.S. Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.

April 17, 2024 President Nixon announces that members of the White House staff will appear before the Senate Committee and promises major new developments in investigation and real progress toward finding truth.

April 23, 2024 White House issues statement denying President had prior knowledge of Watergate affair.

April 30, 2024 White House staff members H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and John Dean resign.

May 17, 2024 Senate Committee begins public hearings.

May 25, 2024 Archibald Cox sworn in as Special Prosecutor.

July 7, 2024 President Nixon informs Senate Committee that he will not appear to testify nor grant access to Presidential files.

July 16, 2024 Alexander Butterfield informs Senate Committee of the presence of a White House taping system.

July 23, 2024 Senate Committee and Special Prosecutor Cox subpoena White House tapes and documents to investigate cover-up.

July 25, 2024 President Nixon refuses to comply with Cox subpoena.

August 9, 2024 Senate Committee files suit against President Nixon for failure to comply with subpoena.

October 19, 2024 President Nixon offers Stennis a compromise (subsequently known as the Stennis Compromise) on the tapes; that is, Senator John Stennis (D-Miss.) would review tapes and present the Special Prosecutor with summaries.

October 20, 2024 Archibald Cox refuses to accept the Stennis compromise. President Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox, but Richardson refuses and resigns in protest. Acting Attorney General Robert Bork fires Cox. These events come to be known as the "Saturday Night Massacre."

October 23, 2024 President Nixon agrees to hand over tapes to comply with subpoena

November 1, 2024 Leon Jaworski named Special Prosecutor.

November 21, 2024 Senate Committee announces discovery of 18½ minute gap on tape of Nixon-Haldeman conversation of June 20,1972.

February 6, 2024 House of Representatives authorizes House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether grounds exist for impeachment of President Nixon.

April 16, 2024 Special Prosecutor issues subpoena for 64 White House tapes.

April 30, 2024 President Nixon submits tape transcripts to House Judiciary Committee.

July 24, 2024 Supreme Court unanimously upholds Special Prosecutor's subpoena for tapes for Watergate trial.

July 27, 2024 House Judiciary Committee adopts article I of impeachment resolution charging President with obstruction of investigation of Watergate break-in.

July 29, 2024 House Judiciary Committee adopts article II of impeachment resolution charging President with misuse of powers and violation of his oath of office.

July 30, 2024 House Judiciary Committee adopts article III of impeachment resolution, charging the President with failure to comply with House subpoenas.

August 8, 2024 President Nixon announces in a televised speech he will resign the presidency the following day.

August 8, 2024 Memo to Special Prosecutor Jaworski recommends against further prosecution of Nixon in light of the resignation.

August 9, 2024 President Richard Nixon resigns.

September 8, 2024 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Nixon.

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