Watergate Scandal

By marioooooo

  • Nixon Gets Elected

    Nixon Gets Elected
    Richard Nixon is elected as the 37th President of the United States of America.

  • The Pentagon Papers

    The Pentagon Papers
    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.

  • White House Plumbers

    White House Plumbers
    President Nixon assembles a team of people assigned with the task of stopping information from leaking.

  • Nixon's Enemy List

    Nixon's Enemy List
    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.

  • Watergate

    Watergate
    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.

  • President Nixon resigns

    President Nixon resigns
    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.

  • Nixon is pardoned

    Nixon is pardoned
    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.