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Republican California Senator Richard Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and is elected president of the United States
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Inauguration of 37th president Richard Nixon. In his speech he promised to bring America together and find a way to end the war.
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Pentagon official, military analyst and former Marine Daniel Ellsberg released documents to the Washington Post and New York Times. These papers brought to light the Vietnam War policies of former presidential administrations and were believed to indict the former presidents.
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White House aides begin list of people to "get". These are people who are thought of as "against" the president or have publicly disagreed with him. They were the original compilers.
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Henchmen in business suites, hired by the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or "CREEP", burglarize the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding in an attempt to find information on one of his clients, Daniel Ellsberg.
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In their second highly significant act, the "plumbers" entered the offices of the Democratic National Committee and were caught planting microphones. All five were arrested in what was called by the White House a "third-rate" burglary.
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Security coordinator for CREEP is reported as one of burglars in Watergate. Denials from attorney general John Mitchell, speaking on behalf of CREEP, about its involvement with the burglary.
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John N. Mitchell was found out to have been comptroller of a secret account used for payments, before he became Nixon's campaign manager on March 1, 1971.
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President Nixon defeats Democratic candidate George McGovern in an overwhelming majority. The public was still unaware of the relevance of the Watergate scandal.
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Nixon's former aides, G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr. are convicted of crimes involving the Watergate incident, along with 5 others, including E. Howard Hunt, all of whom pleaded guilty.
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White House administrators H.R. Haldeman and James W. McCord, Jr., Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign as a result of the scandal.
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Nixon fires Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the same night that new Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy AG William D. Ruckelhaus resign.
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The presidential tapes which held recordings of Nixon's conversations in the oval office were withheld from the Senate Committee for the reason that he had "executive privilege".
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The House Judiciary Committee charges President Nixon with obstruction of justice
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President Richard Nixon becomes the first president of the United States to ever resign. Gerald Ford becomes president.
