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Pardon of Richard Nixon. Proclamation 4311. President Gerald Ford announcing his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon. Type. Presidential proclamation. Signed by. Gerald Ford on September 8, 1974. Summary. Granted a full and unconditional pardon to former President Richard Nixon.
- February 1971
- June 13, 1971
- 1971
- January 1972
- May 28, 1972
- June 17, 1972
- June 20, 1972
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- August 30, 1972
- September 29, 1972
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.
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Postwill begin publishing the papers later in the week.
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. On September 9, the "plumbers" break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, in an unsuccessful attempt to steal psychiatric records to smear Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analy...
One of the “plumbers,” G. Gordon Liddy, is transferred to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), where he obtains approval from Attorney General John Mitchell for a wide-ranging plan of espionage against the Democratic Party.
Liddy’s team breaks into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. for the first time, bugging the telephones of staffers.
Five men are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. Among the items found in their possession were bugging devices, thousands of dollars in cash and rolls of film. Days later, the White House denied involvement in the break-in.
Bob Woodward has his first of several meetings with the source and informant known as “Deep Throat,” whose identity, W. Mark Felt, the associate director of the FBI, was only revealed three decades later.
An article in The Washington Postreports that a check for $25,000 earmarked for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign was deposited into the bank account of one of the men arrested for the Watergate break-in. Over the course of nearly two years, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein continue to file stories about the Watergate scandal, relying on many source...
Nixon announces that John Dean has completed an internal investigation into the Watergate break-in, and has found no evidence of White House involvement.
The Washington Post reports that while serving as Attorney General, John Mitchell had controlled a secret fund to finance intelligence gathering against Democrats. When Carl Bernstein calls Mitchell for comment, Mitchell threatens both Bernstein and Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Post. The Postprints the threat.
Nixon (1974) compelled Nixon to surrender the Oval Office tapes, which revealed his complicity in the cover-up. The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon, [11] who subsequently resigned from office on August 9, 1974, becoming the only U.S. president to do so.
In the aftermath of Richard Nixon’s resignation, Watergate continued to claim victims. The final toll included: one presidential resignation; one vice-presidential resignation – although Agnew’s crimes were unrelated to Watergate; 40 government officials indicted or jailed
Oct 14, 2024 · Two weeks later, on April 30, 1973, Nixon gave a major televised address announcing the resignations of Dean; his two closest aides by far, Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman; and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst.
Oct 29, 2009 · Finally, on August 5, Nixon released the tapes, which provided undeniable evidence of his complicity in the Watergate crimes. In the face of almost certain impeachment by Congress, Nixon...
Jun 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 Pentagon Papers the year...
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