Former attorney for Nelson Rockefeller. Appointed by Nixon to Attorney General of U.S. Resigned Justice Dept. appointment in 1972 to…
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…
Howard Hunt during the Senate hearings. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt testifies before the Senate…
Four days after the arrests at the Watergate Hotel, Martha Mitchell called a UPI reporter from Newport, California: “I am…
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the offices of the Washington Post. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Washington Post reporter Bob…
White House aide John Ehrlichman presents the results of his “independent investigation” of Watergate (see March 27, 1973) to President…
Jeb Magruder testifies before Watergate investigators. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Former CREEP deputy director Jeb Magruder testifies in private to…
James McCord demonstrates a bugging device during his testimony. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis] Convicted Watergate burglar James McCord testifies behind…
White House counsel John Dean warns President Nixon of a “cancer on the presidency.” When this phrase enters the public…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward once again meets with his FBI background source, W. Mark Felt—known around the Post offices…
Hugh Sloan. [Source: Bettmann / Corbis]Former Nixon campaign treasurer Htifies during the trial of the “Watergate Seven” (see January 8-11,…
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
Clark MacGregor, the head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), admits to the existence of a CREEP cash…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
Carl Bernstein, Katherine Graham, and Bob Woodward discuss the newspaper’s Watergate coverage. [Source: Southern Methodist University] The Washington Post reports…
Hugh Sloan. [Source: Washington Post] The former treasurer for the Campaign to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Hugh Sloan, tells Washington…
Disappointed that the Watergate burglary indictments do not extend further than the five burglars and their two handlers (see 2:30…
During the 1972 presidential campaign, Lucianne Cummings Goldberg joined the press corps covering Democratic candidate George McGovern claiming to be a…
President Nixon responds to the report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) alleging possible illegal campaign finances in his re-election…
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…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein asks a former Nixon administration official about some of the White House officials who may…
President Nixon and chief of staff H. R. Haldeman discuss a suggestion by Nixon campaign chief John Mitchell regarding the…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
The US Supreme Court, in what becomes informally known as the “Keith case,” upholds, 8-0, an appellate court ruling that…
Headline from Washington Post identifying McCord as a ‘GOP Security Aide.’ [Source: Washington Post] James McCord, one of the five…
John Mitchell, the former attorney general who now heads the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), responds to the news…
Richard Kleindienst. [Source: public domain] Hours after the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), Attorney General Richard Kleindienst is…
Five burglars (see June 17, 1972) are arrested at 2:30 a.m. while breaking in to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)…
According to later testimony to Watergate investigators, the deputy director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Jeb Magruder,…
Arthur Bremer, one of four sons, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 August 1950. His father, William Bremer, was…
According to the FBI’s Watergate investigation, John Mitchell, the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), and his…
Dates: March 1, 1972 – September 5, 1972 During the 1972 presidential election, Nixon political strategist Murray Chotiner served as…
John Mitchell. [Source: Southern Methodist University] Attorney General John Mitchell resigns, and immediately assumes the position of chairman of…
“Plumber” G. Gordon Liddy lays out an elaborate $1 million proposal for a plan for political espionage and campaign “dirty…
President Nixon tells his legal adviser Charles Colson of the lessons he has learned from Watergate. The whole conspiracy was…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
House Majority Leader Hale Boggs took the floor of the House to deliver a speech that created a major stir…
Ratfucking tricks plus money raised by ITT for a payoff
ITT logo. [Source: Private Line.com] International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) acquires three smaller corporations, prompting the US Justice Department to…
According to records of President Lyndon B. Johnson‘s secret monitoring of South Vietnamese officials and his political foes, Anna Chennault played a crucial…