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…
Edmund Muskie. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Less than two weeks before the New Hampshire presidential primary, the Manchester Union-Leader publishes…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
Donald Segretti. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] One of the Nixon campaign’s “agents provocateur,” California lawyer Donald Segretti, attempts to recruit…