Watergate scandal

The Water Gate Scandal

  • Nixon Gets Elected

    Nixon Gets Elected
    President Nixon wins the election in one of the closest elections in U.S. History
  • Nixon Approves FBI plan

    Nixon Approves FBI plan
    Nixon approves a plan to expand donestic intelligence with secret agencies, however then has second thoughts and dismisses the issue.
  • Men arrested at Watergate

    Men arrested at Watergate
    Five men that use to be in the CIA are arrested trying to bug the office of the Democratic Committee at Watergate.
  • Post reports Break in linked to Nixon

    Post reports Break in linked to Nixon
    Post reports that the watergate scandal was conducted on behalf of Nixon for his re-election.
  • Nixon Gets Re-elected

    Nixon Gets Re-elected
    Nixon gets re-elected and by a landslide. He took more than 60% of the vote.
  • Nixon Aides go to Jail

    Nixon Aides go to Jail
    2 of Nixon aids are convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and wiretapping in the Watergate incident.
  • Someone Spills Details on Nixon

    Someone Spills Details on Nixon
    John Dean tells about the Watergate scandal to the post, recealing that he talked to Nixon on many different occasions about the cover-up.
  • Nixon Defends his case

    Nixon Defends his case
    Nixon Declared that he was not a crook and was defending his innocence in the Watergate case
  • Gap in Subpoenad Tapes

    Gap in Subpoenad Tapes
    When the White House finally gets the watergate tapes, there is a gap in the middle of one of them. People believed that it was not "accidently erased"
  • Nixon resigns

    Nixon resigns
    President Nixon becomes the first US president to resign. President Ford becomes new President, Nixon will later be pardoned for all the charges related to the WaterGate scandal.