On 1st July, 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of moving C4 explosives linked from anti-Castro…
During the FBI interview of Charles Colson in White House counsel John Dean’s office (see June 22, 1972), Colson tells…
Nixon and Haldeman, three days after the June 23 meeting. [Source: Washington Post]With the FBI tracing the Watergate burglars’ $100…
President Nixon tells a gathering of reporters regarding the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), “The White House has…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein asks a former Nixon administration official about some of the White House officials who may…
President Nixon and chief of staff H. R. Haldeman discuss a suggestion by Nixon campaign chief John Mitchell regarding the…
President Nixon tells his chief of staff H. R. Haldeman that the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) “are…
According to White House aide H. R. Haldeman’s 1978 book The Ends to Power (see February 1978), President Nixon phones…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
According to White House aide H. R. Haldeman’s 1978 book The Ends to Power (see February 1978), President Nixon phones…
The US Supreme Court, in what becomes informally known as the “Keith case,” upholds, 8-0, an appellate court ruling that…
The FBI learns that a hotel room in the Howard Johnsons Motor Lodge across the street from the Watergate hotel…
Headline from Washington Post identifying McCord as a ‘GOP Security Aide.’ [Source: Washington Post] James McCord, one of the five…
After the Watergate Trials were on television, Los Angeles PD informant and agent-provacateur Louis Tackwood noticed a few defendants. Tackwood…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward learns that two of the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) have the name…
John Mitchell, the former attorney general who now heads the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), responds to the news…
Prosecutor Earl Silbert. [Source: Washington Post] The five men caught burglarizing the Democratic Nations headquarters in the Watergate hotel (see…
Richard Kleindienst. [Source: public domain] Hours after the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), Attorney General Richard Kleindienst is…
Though the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) are not yet allowed to make telephones begin ringing at…
A security guard at the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Stephen Anderson, is told by CREEP security director and…
Earlier in the same week of the arrest in Washington, all keys to the convention centers for the Miami halls…
L. Patrick Gray. [Source: Associated Press] L. Patrick Gray, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, is named the…
According to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), White House aide E. Howard Hunt, whom he calls…
Mrs. Andrew Topping, the wife of an Upper West Side man arrested for plotting to kill Nixon, died of gunshot…
Bill Liedtke was racing against time. His deadline was a little more than a day away. He’d prepared everything—suitcase stuffed…
Edward Lansdale helped lead the development of Bay of Pigs invasion force, bringing the number of soldiers from 300 to…
According to the FBI’s Watergate investigation, John Mitchell, the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), and his…
Dates: March 10, 1972 – March 23, 1972 W. Mark Felt, the number three official at the FBI, is given…
John Mitchell. [Source: Southern Methodist University] Attorney General John Mitchell resigns, and immediately assumes the position of chairman of…
President Nixon’s personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, delivers over $900,000 in secret campaign contributions to the Committee to Re-elect the President…
“Plumber” G. Gordon Liddy lays out an elaborate $1 million proposal for a plan for political espionage and campaign “dirty…
President Nixon tells his legal adviser Charles Colson of the lessons he has learned from Watergate. The whole conspiracy was…
Late 1971, the President’s brother Donald Nixon, was collecting intelligence for his brother and asked John H. Meier about DNC…
Jack Caulfield’s White House ID card. [Source: Watergate.com] On 17th September, 1971, John Dean and Jeb Magruder asked Caulfield to…
President Nixon’s aides have diligently tried to find evidence linking former President John F. Kennedy to the 1963 assassinations of…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman suggests breaking into the National Archives. The mission: photograph secret documents Ehrlichman believes were deposited by…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman gives a progress report on the activities of the “Plumbers” to the president. “Plumbers” head Egil…
In a secretly recorded conversation in the Oval Office, President Nixon makes the following comments about Jewish contributors to the…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman passes on the president’s recommendations to the heads of the “Plumbers,” Egil Krogh and David Young…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman reports that he has successfully created the special investigations unit ordered by the president (see Late…
E. Howard Hunt. [Source: American Patriot Friends Network] Nixon White House aides Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman appoint former CIA…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein learns of White House aide Charles Colson’s plan to burglarize the Brookings Institution (see June…
President Nixon tries to come up with ways to use the recently leaked “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971) to…
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers – the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War. The…
President Nixon tells his aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they will need to dun even more money…
International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) offers the Nixon administration $400,000 to finance the GOP’s 1972 national convention in San Diego.…
Frederick LaRue. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Two White House aides, Frederick LaRue and G. Gordon Liddy, attend a meeting of the…
The polar opposite of what the plumbers were doing. Nixon was furious. One night in 1971, files were stolen from…
Governor Ronald Reagan listens to a statement by an antiwar protester, 1970. [Source: Not in Kansas (.com)] Speaking in support of…