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55 year old Richard Nixon former vice prisdent defeats Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections in the US history, becoming the 37th president
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Nixon approved a plan for the greatly expanding domestic intelligence gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies, and also endorced the Huston Plan.
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New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon papers the Defense Dpartment's secret history of the Vietnam War.
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a 25,000 cashier's check, apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank accout of a Watergate burglar.
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Five men, one of whom used to work for the CIA, are arrested trying to bug the officers of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
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Nixon is reelected in one of the largest landslides in American history, taking more than 60% of the votes.
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Gordan Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burgary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident.
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Top white house staffers, H.R Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal.
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Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secrety, reveals in congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon had recoreded all conversations and telephone calls.
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Nixon orers the White House taping system disconnnected, and refuses to turn over the presidental tape recordings to the senate Watergate committee.
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Nixon declares "i am not a crook" maintaing his innocence.
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White house finds a 18 1/2 gap missing in one of the tapes.
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The Wite House releases more than 1200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to theHouse Judiciary Committee.
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House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of Justice.
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Richard Nixon becomes the first US president to resign. Ford assumes the county's highest office.
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Thirty years after the senate select committee hearings on the Watergate riveted the nation and doomed the Nixon presidency, a key figure in the scandle says Nixon personally ordered the burglary of Democratic headquaters at the Watergate complex.
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National Archives and Recordes Administration releases 240 more hours of tape of the 37th president.
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The washington post conirms that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two offical at the FBI, was Deep Throat.
