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Richard Nixon is elected as the 37th President of the United States of America.
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The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg and brought to the attention of the public by The New York Times. The papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scale of the Vietnam War.
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President Nixon assembles a team of people assigned with the task of stopping information from leaking.
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President Nixon becomes paranoid after the Pentagon Papers were published, and he creates a list of people he thinks that will try to hurt his presidency. People on this list were people who publicly disagreed with him and political adversaries.
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5 men, the plumbers, were arrested at a break-in at the Watergate building in Washington which was also the Democratic National Committee HQ. They were arrested after an effort to plant electronic bugs.
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After President Nixon learns that his impeachment is imminent, he decides to resign to try to retain some respect. This made President Nixon the first president to resign.
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President Ford granted Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon". This meant that Nixon could not be convicted of the crimes that he committed while in office.
