Watergate Scandal By DEuten081400 Nov 5, 1965 Richard Nixon elected president Jul 23, 1969 Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic Jun 13, 1972 The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers – the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War. Jun 19, 1972 A $25,000 cashier’s check, apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar May 18, 1973 The Senate Watergate committee begins its nationally televised hearings. Jun 3, 1973 John Dean has told Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up Apr 30, 1974 The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts