Watergate Scandal

  • Plumbers Unit

    The White House "plumbers" unit break into a psychiatrist's office to find files on Daniel Ellsberg, a person who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
  • John Mitchell

    The Washington post reports a Republican party security aide is one of the Watergate burglars. John Mitchell, denies any link to the operation.
  • Cashier's Check

    A $25,000 cashier's check, earmarked for the Nixon campaign, ended up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar
  • Break-In

    FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted.
  • Nixon Re-elected

    Nixon is re-elected in one of the largest landslides in American political history, taking more than 60 percent of the vote.
  • Senate

    The Senate Watergate committee begins nationally televised hearings into the incidents.
  • John Dean

    John Dean has told Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon at least 35 times