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Frank Wills was a young security guard who called the police after finding masking tape on the doors. He took it off and found it again and that was when he called the police at 1:47 a.m. Police arrested the suspects at 2:30 a.m. Arrested were former CIA agent James McCord.
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Five men- Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, and James McCord were indicted for the break-in. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt were also indicted. McCord and Liddy provide investigators with a link to the Nixon campaign.
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CREEP is involved in political espionage, and its clandestine activities are financed by a secret fund controlled by former Attorney Mitchell.
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By a 77-0 vote, the Senate establishes the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign.
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Samuel Dash announces that James McCord has begun to deliver a "full and honest account" of the Watergate affair.
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In a nationally televised speech, Nixon announces the resignations of White House staff.
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McCord says he was pressured to say he was guilty and stay quiet for no punishment to him.
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The president was aware of the cover-up of the break-in. He had to make sure it was covered up to be re-elected.
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Mitchell says he didn't give the "ok" to the break-in and didn't tell Nixon.
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Alexander P. Butterfield reveals that all of Nixon's private conversation's were automatically taped by a set of hidden recording devices.
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Haldeman admits that he gave money for "dirty tricks" and denies that the president had any knowledge of cover-up.
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Segretti, a paid "political prankster" played dirty tricks to get Muskie out of the president campaign and made bogus posters.
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Nixons vice president resigns from setting up incoming vice president.
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Nixon didn't want to give out the tapes. Richardson resigns, Rucleshaus gets fired, and Cox is fired by Bork. FBI sealed off their entire teams.
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Attorney Bork named Attorney Jaworski as new special prosecutor.
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Nixon continues to assert his innocence and then turned to the camera and said he wasn't a crook.
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Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Mardian, Parkinson, and Strachan are indicted by federal grand jury. Nixon was named as unindicted co-conspirator.
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House Judiciary Committee gives Nixon more time to give up the tapes, April 30 as the deadline.
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On a televised speech, Nixon promises to release 1,200 pages of edited transcripts.
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The president's failure of sending the real tapes to the House Judiciary Committee starts the opening of the impeachment hearings lead by Peter Rodino.
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Supreme Court rules that Nixon didn't have the authority to hold the tapes.
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Committee charges Nixon of obstructing justice, then with misuse of presidential powers and then with the tapes.
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Nixon urges Senate not to convict him.
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President says bye to staff.
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After one month in office, Ford pardons Nixon for his crimes.
