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 Nixon White House aide Charles Colson, later described by reporter David Plotz as “Richard Nixon’s hard man, the ‘evil…
Washington Post headline from Dean story. [Source: Washington Post] Former White House counsel John Dean has told Watergate investigators that…
US District Court Judge W. M. Byrne, Jr dismisses all charges against “Pentagon Papers” leaker Daniel Ellsberg (see March 1971)…
White House counsel John Dean meets with President Nixon to discuss his upcoming testimony before the Watergate grand jury (see…
White House aide John Ehrlichman presents the results of his “independent investigation” of Watergate (see March 27, 1973) to President…
Convicted Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972 and January 8-11, 1973) lies to the Watergate grand…
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…
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward once again meets with his FBI background source, W. Mark Felt—known around the Post offices…
E. Howard Hunt, the leader of the seven Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) currently on trial, tells fellow…
Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray burns key documents in the Watergate case. He has had the documents, originally kept…
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Robert Meyers interview Donald Segretti, a Nixon campaign operative (see June 27, 1971, and…
Hugh Sloan. [Source: Washington Post] The former treasurer for the Campaign to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Hugh Sloan, tells Washington…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein interviews a reluctant source, a bookkeeper for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). In…
A staff member of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), G. Gordon Liddy, is fired after he refuses to…
President Nixon tells a gathering of reporters regarding the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), “The White House has…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein asks a former Nixon administration official about some of the White House officials who may…
Five burglars (see June 17, 1972) are arrested at 2:30 a.m. while breaking in to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)…
Though the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) are not yet allowed to make telephones begin ringing at…
The Nixon administration spends $8,400 on fake telegrams and advetisements to create a false impression of public support for the…
E. Howard Hunt. [Source: American Patriot Friends Network] Nixon White House aides Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman appoint former CIA…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein learns of White House aide Charles Colson’s plan to burglarize the Brookings Institution (see June…
International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) offers the Nixon administration $400,000 to finance the GOP’s 1972 national convention in San Diego.…
ITT logo. [Source: Private Line.com] International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) acquires three smaller corporations, prompting the US Justice Department to…