The Justice Department’s Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) submits a report on the role and actions of the FBI…
Former Nixon White House aide Charles Colson, later described by reporter David Plotz as “Richard Nixon’s hard man, the ‘evil…
Former White House aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy, and three Cuban-Americans, including two of the convicted…
George Bell, assistant to Charles Colson, special counsel to the White House, died of unreported causes on June 30, 1973.…
Comedian Bill Cosby, one of many on Nixon’s enemies list. [Source: Quixoticals] Former White House counsel John Dean, continuing his…
James McCord demonstrates a bugging device during his testimony. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar James McCord testifies behind…
After the Dean “cancer” conversation (see March 21, 1973), President Nixon speaks with his senior aide, Charles Colson, about paying…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward once again meets with his FBI background source, W. Mark Felt—known around the Post offices…
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
White House aide Charles Colson and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt discuss Hunt’s demand for “hush money” (see June 20-21,…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
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…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein asks a former Nixon administration official about some of the White House officials who may…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward learns that two of the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) have the name…
Though the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) are not yet allowed to make telephones begin ringing at…
Arthur Bremer, one of four sons, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 August 1950. His father, William Bremer, was…
President Nixon tells his legal adviser Charles Colson of the lessons he has learned from Watergate. The whole conspiracy was…
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 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…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein learns of White House aide Charles Colson’s plan to burglarize the Brookings Institution (see June…
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
Nixon aide Charles Colson and Colson’s aide George Bell begin working on an “enemies list,” people and organizations the White…
Nixon had a favorite young dirty trickster, former Young Americans for Freedom president Tom Charles Huston. He signed memos “Cato…
ITT logo. [Source: Private Line.com] International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) acquires three smaller corporations, prompting the US Justice Department to…