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Electronic surveillance equipment installed at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building
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On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac. They possessed burglary tools, cameras, film and pen-size tear gas guns. In rooms the menhad rented at a motel across Virginia Avenue from the burglary scene, police found electronic bugging equipment.
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The Deans are at the center of Watergate conspiracy theories that sound as if they came from a steamy Washington novel. They filed a lawsuit prompted by the published allegations about them.
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Hunt, Liddy, and the 5 Watergate burglars were indicted by a federal grand jury.
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On February 5, 1973, Senator Edward Kennedy offered Senate Resolution 60 to establish a Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to investigate campaign activities related to the presidential election of 1972
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Discussions of press coverage and campaign funding (three parts).
Topics of discussion include: press coverage and the issue of campaign funding, Hunt's testimony, and the President insisting, publicly, to Mitchell, Magruder, Liddy not to withhold testimony thinking they will protect the President. -
• April 30, 1973 White House staff members H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, and John Dean resign.
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President Nixon informs Senate Committee that he will not appear to testify nor grant access to Presidential files.
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• July 16, 1973 Alexander Butterfield informs Senate Committee of the presence of a White House taping system.
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President Nixon refuses to comply with a subpoena for White House tapes and documents to investigate cover-up.
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Nixon was not the first president to record his White House conversations
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Senate Committee announces discovery of 18 ½ minute gap on tape of Nixon-Haldeman conversation of June 20, 1972
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Special Prosecutor issues subpoena for 64 White House tapes.
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House Judiciary Committee adopts article I of impeachment resolution against the President.
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Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,
