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In this election, one of the closest in U.S. history, Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey.
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Nixon is the 37th president of the United States.
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The "Pentagon Papers" are the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. Daniel Elsburg who works for the Pentagon gives the papers to the New York Times illegally. The Washington Post also begins publishing the papers later this week.
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This unit was called the "plumbers" because they were given orders to plug leaks in the administration. They trashed Daniel Ellsburg's pschiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg that could be used against him.
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CREEP stands for the Committee to Reelect the President (Nixon)
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Five men are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
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A $25,000 cashier's check, supposedly earmarked for the Nixon campaign, is found in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.
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FBI agents discover that the Watergate break-in is one of few massive campaigns of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort
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Nixon is reelected by more than 60 percent of votes in one of the largest landslide elections in American history. Running against him was the Democratic nominee, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota.
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Nixon's top White House staffers, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman resign, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign, White House counsel John Dean is fired.
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Nixon refuses to give his presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor.
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Nixon fires Archibald Cox and eliminates the office of the special prosecutor. Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus resign.
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Declared by Nixon to maintain his innocence