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Jun 3, 2022 · A CNN original series, "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal," reexamined the infamous break-in and cover-up — this time told firsthand by John Dean, former White House counsel. Police check out...
- The Watergate Break-In. The origins of the Watergate break-in lay in the hostile political climate of the time. By 1972, when Republican President Richard M. Nixon was running for reelection, the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War, and the country was deeply divided.
- Nixon's Obstruction of Justice. It later came to light that Nixon was not being truthful. A few days after the break-in, for instance, he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the burglars.
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Investigate. By that time, a growing handful of people—including Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, trial judge John J. Sirica and members of a Senate investigating committee—had begun to suspect that there was a larger scheme afoot.
- The Saturday Night Massacre. When Cox refused to stop demanding the tapes, Nixon ordered that he be fired, leading several Justice Department officials to resign in protest.
Jun 13, 2022 · Dylan Moriarty. June 13, 2022. When Americans woke up on June 17, 1972, they knew President Richard M. Nixon was cruising to a likely reelection. He had withstood the embarrassing leak of the...
- January 1969. Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States.
- February 1971. Richard Nixon orders the installation of a secret taping system that records all conversations in the Oval Office, his Executive Office Building office, and his Camp David office and on selected telephones in these locations.
- June 13, 1971. The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post will begin publishing the papers later in the week.
- 1971. Nixon and his staff recruit a team of ex-FBI and CIA operatives, later referred to as “the Plumbers” to investigate the leaked publication of the Pentagon Papers.
Apr 28, 2022 · The golden anniversary of that lowly, ultimately consequential break-in is being marked two miles east of the Watergate complex at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery with an exhibition...
September 9, 1971 – The White House Plumbers (E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, and others) break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding, in an unsuccessful attempt to steal psychiatric records to smear Ellsberg—the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press.
The Watergate scandal fundamentally changed how Americans viewed the presidency. Today, “Watergate” is synonymous with political deceit and murky coverups; the suffix “—gate” now applied to political misdeeds both real and perceived.
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