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…
Former White House aides John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy, and three Cuban-Americans, including two of the convicted…
Howard Hunt during the Senate hearings. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt testifies before the Senate…
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…
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the offices of the Washington Post. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Washington Post reporter Bob…
White House counsel John Dean meets with President Nixon to discuss his upcoming testimony before the Watergate grand jury (see…
Jeb Magruder testifies before Watergate investigators. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Former CREEP deputy director Jeb Magruder testifies in private to…
The Senate hearings for L. Patrick Gray’s nomination as FBI director (see February 28-29, 1973) become ever more contentious after…
White House counsel John Dean warns President Nixon of a “cancer on the presidency.” When this phrase enters the public…
President Nixon and White House counsel John Dean discuss several topics surrounding the Watergate investigation. The conversation is secretly recorded.…
After the press reports that the Watergate burglars will receive cash payments in return for their guilty pleas and their…
Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray burns key documents in the Watergate case. He has had the documents, originally kept…
White House secretary Kathleen Chenow (see June 28-July 3, 1972) confirms the existence of the “Plumbers,” the extralegal operation tasked…
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…
’ChapStick’ surveillance devices similar to those destroyed by Gray. [Source: National Archives] FBI Director L. Patrick Gray meets with White…
Vernon Walters. [Source: Medal of Freedom (.com)] White House counsel John Dean meets with Vernon Walters, the deputy director of…
During the FBI interview of Charles Colson in White House counsel John Dean’s office (see June 22, 1972), Colson tells…
White House counsel John Dean orders the opening of a safe belonging to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30…
Dates: March 10, 1972 – March 23, 1972 W. Mark Felt, the number three official at the FBI, is given…
“Plumber” G. Gordon Liddy lays out an elaborate $1 million proposal for a plan for political espionage and campaign “dirty…
Jack Caulfield’s White House ID card. [Source: Watergate.com] On 17th September, 1971, John Dean and Jeb Magruder asked Caulfield to…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein learns of White House aide Charles Colson’s plan to burglarize the Brookings Institution (see June…