E. Howard Hunt. [Source: Michael Brennan / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
The Justice Department’s Office of Planning and Evaluation (OPE) submits a report on the role and actions of the FBI…
Comedian Bill Cosby, one of many on Nixon’s enemies list. [Source: Quixoticals] Former White House counsel John Dean, continuing his…
Washington Post headline from Dean story. [Source: Washington Post] Former White House counsel John Dean has told Watergate investigators that…
White House counsel John Dean warns President Nixon of a “cancer on the presidency.” When this phrase enters the public…
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Robert Meyers interview Donald Segretti, a Nixon campaign operative (see June 27, 1971, and…
Carl Bernstein, Katherine Graham, and Bob Woodward discuss the newspaper’s Watergate coverage. [Source: Southern Methodist University] The Washington Post reports…
President Nixon responds to the report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) alleging possible illegal campaign finances in his re-election…
White House counsel John Dean reports that the Watergate grand jury will hand down seven indictments—the five Watergate burglars and…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), learns…
Vernon Walters. [Source: Medal of Freedom (.com)] White House counsel John Dean meets with Vernon Walters, the deputy director of…
Nixon and Haldeman, three days after the June 23 meeting. [Source: Washington Post]With the FBI tracing the Watergate burglars’ $100…
President Nixon tells his chief of staff H. R. Haldeman that the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) “are…
According to White House aide H. R. Haldeman’s 1978 book The Ends to Power (see February 1978), President Nixon phones…
According to White House aide H. R. Haldeman’s 1978 book The Ends to Power (see February 1978), President Nixon phones…
White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
During a conversation on how to best use the “Pentagon Papers” to their own advantage (see June 17, 1971), President…
Though the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) are not yet allowed to make telephones begin ringing at…
According to the FBI’s Watergate investigation, John Mitchell, the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), and his…
President Nixon tells his legal adviser Charles Colson of the lessons he has learned from Watergate. The whole conspiracy was…
In a secretly recorded conversation in the Oval Office, President Nixon makes the following comments about Jewish contributors to the…
As far from the Oval Office as Possible
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
President Nixon tries to come up with ways to use the recently leaked “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971) to…
President Nixon tells his aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they will need to dun even more money…
President Richard Nixon writes an action memo to senior aide H. R. Haldeman saying, “One of our most important projects…
Independent oilman John M. King calls President Nixon’s staff to suggest that the Nixon White House funnel money from big…
Movie Night in Washington
Map showing the 115,273 targets bombed by US airstrikes between October 1965 and August 1973. [Source: Taylor Owen / History News…