President Nixon authorizes the creation of a “special investigations unit,” later nicknamed the “Plumbers,” to root out and seal media…
Donald Segretti. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Three attorneys—one the assistant attorney general of Tennessee, Alex Shipley—are asked to work as so-called…
President Nixon tries to come up with ways to use the recently leaked “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971) to…
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers – the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War. The…
Nixon More Evil than Scalia
President Nixon tells his aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman that they will need to dun even more money…
International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) offers the Nixon administration $400,000 to finance the GOP’s 1972 national convention in San Diego.…
Nixon aide Charles Colson and Colson’s aide George Bell begin working on an “enemies list,” people and organizations the White…
In Rome on a diplomatic tour, Nixon huddled with Kissinger to scheme how to undo the Chilean election won by…
President Nixon approves the “Huston Plan” for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. Four days…
President Nixon meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, CIA Director Richard Helms, and the heads of the NSA and…
Kissinger notes that New York Times reporter William Beecher has been asking some suspiciously well-informed questions about the operation. Beecher’s…
Nixon wants a permanent election tricks operation going in addition to the pollsters. Nixon wants LTE stuff
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…
President Nixon learns of Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)‘s involvement in the death by drowning of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne…
One day Nixon raged to his press aides to sever all ties with the Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.…
Henry Kissinger. [Source: Library of Congress] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, determined to prove to President Nixon that news stories…
The New York Times reveals the secret bombings of Cambodia, dubbed “Operation Menu” (see February 23-24, 1969 and March 15-17,…
Movie Night in Washington
Former New York Police Department detective Jack Caulfield begins his new job as a White House aide. Caulfield was added…
President Nixon makes the final decision to launch “Operation Menu”—secret air strikes against Cambodia (see February 23-24, 1969). He meets with…
Map showing the 115,273 targets bombed by US airstrikes between October 1965 and August 1973. [Source: Taylor Owen / History News…
from word go Nixon was fighting dirty
According to records of President Lyndon B. Johnson‘s secret monitoring of South Vietnamese officials and his political foes, Anna Chennault played a crucial…