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…
Watergate investigators find a memo addressed to John Ehrlichman detailing plans to burglarize the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist (see…
Washington Post headline from Dean story. [Source: Washington Post] Former White House counsel John Dean has told Watergate investigators that…
US District Court Judge W. M. Byrne, Jr dismisses all charges against “Pentagon Papers” leaker Daniel Ellsberg (see March 1971)…
President Nixon tells a gathering of reporters regarding the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), “The White House has…
Five burglars (see June 17, 1972) are arrested at 2:30 a.m. while breaking in to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)…
Burglar Frank Sturgis is one of the men who attacked Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg outside a memorial service for…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman gives a progress report on the activities of the “Plumbers” to the president. “Plumbers” head Egil…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman passes on the president’s recommendations to the heads of the “Plumbers,” Egil Krogh and David Young…
Ellsberg’s ex rats him out
President Nixon authorizes the creation of a “special investigations unit,” later nicknamed the “Plumbers,” to root out and seal media…
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
The Battle Is Engaged
Drinking Buddies
In 1971 Egil Krogh, gave a White House assignment to David R. Young, a member of the National Security Council…
Book cover of the Pentagon Papers. [Source: Daniel Ellsberg] The New York Times receives a huge amount of secret Defense…
Hunt Trails Ellsberg
The Army drops all charges against six Green Berets who murdered a South Vietnamese interpreter, Thai Khac Chuyen, accused of…
An exhaustive study of the US’s involvement in Vietnam since 1945 is completed. The study was ordered in early 1967…