The Justice Department’s Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) submits a report on the role and actions of the FBI…
The Senate Watergate Committee begins its first day of public hearings. The hearings are televised starting May 18. [Gerald R.…
Jeb Magruder testifies before Watergate investigators. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Former CREEP deputy director Jeb Magruder testifies in private to…
Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972 and January 8-11, 1973) lies to the Watergate grand…
Hugh Sloan. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis]Former Nixon campaign treasurer Htifies during the trial of the “Watergate Seven” (see January 8-11,…
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Robert Meyers interview Donald Segretti, a Nixon campaign operative (see June 27, 1971, and…
Clark MacGregor, the head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), admits to the existence of a CREEP cash…
FBI agents are now convinced that the Watergate break-in (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) is one example of actions conducted…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
Carl Bernstein, Katherine Graham, and Bob Woodward discuss the newspaper’s Watergate coverage. [Source: Southern Methodist University] The Washington Post reports…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein interviews a reluctant source, a bookkeeper for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). In…
Clark MacGregor, the new head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), meets with a select group of White…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), learns…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), gives…
Thomas Eagleton. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdraws from the campaign. A week before,…
The New York Times publishes an article alleging that Watergate burglar Bernard Barker (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) made at…
A staff member of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), G. Gordon Liddy, is fired after he refuses to…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
Headline from Washington Post identifying McCord as a ‘GOP Security Aide.’ [Source: Washington Post] James McCord, one of the five…
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…
While the police are arresting the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), the team leader, E. Howard Hunt,…
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…
According to later testimony to Watergate investigators, the deputy director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Jeb Magruder,…
Alfred Baldwin After the “Plumbers” successfully install surveillance devices in the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (see May…
The Nixon administration spends $8,400 on fake telegrams and advetisements to create a false impression of public support for the…
According to the FBI’s Watergate investigation, John Mitchell, the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), and his…
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…
Edmund Muskie. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Less than two weeks before the New Hampshire presidential primary, the Manchester Union-Leader publishes…
“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…
James W. McCord, Jr. Former FBI and CIA agent James W. McCord joins the staff of the Committee to Re-elect…
Frederick LaRue. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Two White House aides, Frederick LaRue and G. Gordon Liddy, attend a meeting of the…
G. Gordon Liddy, a lawyer with the White House, leaves his position to join the Committee to Re-elect the President…