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Richard M Nixon became the 37th President of the United States
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New York times published Pentagon Papers
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Burglars arrested for trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
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$25,000 cashier's check was loss for the Nixon campaign and it wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.
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FBI Agents based on the Watergate Break in was conducted by a higher power and maybe even the president of the United States.
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Nixon is re-elected
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G. Gordon Liddy, James W. McCord Jr. and five other men are pleaded guilty in the Watergate scandal for bugging offices in the Democractic Building.
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Alexander Butterfield reveals to the court justice that Nixon records every conversation that goes on in the oval office
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Nixon refuses to turn in the tapes on the count of saying executive privilege is his right. He doesn't turn in the tapes to the Senate Watergate committee.
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Nixon fires Archibald Cox and Attorney General Richardson. Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus ends up resigning because of Nixon. The people start pressuring Congress for impeachment.
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The Supreme Court demands that Nixon give the tapes of 64 White House conversations that happen in the oval office.
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Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford becomes president and later pardons Nixon of anything that had to do with the Watergate Scandal.
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Nixon was almost impeached by Congress before he resigned.
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The tapes were released to the public revealing over 340 hours of conversation that went on inside the oval offices between Nixon and his men.