Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray burns key documents in the Watergate case. He has had the documents, originally kept…
Thomas Eagleton. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdraws from the campaign. A week before,…
White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
Donald Segretti. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] One of the Nixon campaign’s “agents provocateur,” California lawyer Donald Segretti, attempts to recruit…
President Nixon learns of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)‘s involvement in the death by drowning of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne…