Barbara Jordan speaking before the House Judiciary Committee. [Source: American Rhetoric (.com)] Barbara Jordan (D-TX), a member of the House…
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…
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…
White House aide John Ehrlichman presents the results of his “independent investigation” of Watergate (see March 27, 1973) to President…
Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, former attorney Henry Rothblatt, Bernard Barker, and Eugenio Martinez, photographed during the trial. [Source: Wally McNamee…
After the Dean “cancer” conversation (see March 21, 1973), President Nixon speaks with his senior aide, Charles Colson, about paying…
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…
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
FBI agents are now convinced that the Watergate break-in (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) is one example of actions conducted…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
advance team dirty trick
President Nixon responds to the report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) alleging possible illegal campaign finances in his re-election…
The Government Accounting Office was supposed to be releasing an audit of Nixon’s donations. On the day of Nixon’s nomination,…
After a tirade about how humiliated and angry he was when he was investigated and audited by the IRS, President…
White House counsel John Dean reports that the Watergate grand jury will hand down seven indictments—the five Watergate burglars and…
Nixon Messes with Jane Fonda
Fonda arrived in Paris and called a press conference. She brought film of the bombed dikes. “I believe in my…
Adding insult to injury, Time reported its own survey: 76.7 percent said Eagleton’s medical record wouldn’t affect their vote. Time…
The reverend was wearing a dashiki, the flowing African-style robe favored by black nationalists, as the TV cameras recorded, and…
Clever Nixon trick
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 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…
President Nixon and chief of staff H. R. Haldeman discuss a suggestion by Nixon campaign chief John Mitchell regarding the…
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…
The US Supreme Court, in what becomes informally known as the “Keith case,” upholds, 8-0, an appellate court ruling that…
During a conversation on how to best use the “Pentagon Papers” to their own advantage (see June 17, 1971), President…
Five burglars (see June 17, 1972) are arrested at 2:30 a.m. while breaking in to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)…
Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars. A covert unit of President Nixon’s “Plumbers” installs surveillance equipment in the headquarters…
Arthur Bremer, one of four sons, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 August 1950. His father, William Bremer, was…
L. Patrick Gray. [Source: Associated Press] L. Patrick Gray, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, is named the…
According to the FBI’s Watergate investigation, John Mitchell, the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), and his…
Dates: March 10, 1972 – March 23, 1972 W. Mark Felt, the number three official at the FBI, is given…
President Nixon’s personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, delivers over $900,000 in secret campaign contributions to the Committee to Re-elect the President…
“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…
Late 1971, the President’s brother Donald Nixon, was collecting intelligence for his brother and asked John H. Meier about DNC…
Jack Caulfield’s White House ID card. [Source: Watergate.com] On 17th September, 1971, John Dean and Jeb Magruder asked Caulfield to…
President Nixon’s aides have diligently tried to find evidence linking former President John F. Kennedy to the 1963 assassinations of…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman gives a progress report on the activities of the “Plumbers” to the president. “Plumbers” head Egil…
In a secretly recorded conversation in the Oval Office, President Nixon makes the following comments about Jewish contributors to the…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman passes on the president’s recommendations to the heads of the “Plumbers,” Egil Krogh and David Young…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…