Links

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fast facts

— The Watergate break-in was in June 1972.

— The cover-up and story ultimately led President Nixon to resign in August 1974.

— Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravelled the scandal.

— A main source for the reporters was called Deep Throat.

TIMELINE

— November 1968: Richard Nixon elected president.

— June 17, 1972: Five men arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex. One of the men says he used to work for the CIA.

— August 1972: The Washington Post reports a $25,000 check apparently meant for the Nixon campaign ended up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.

— October 1972: The Post reports that the FBI believes the Watergate break-in was part of a political sabotage effort by the Nixon campaign.

— November 1972: Nixon is reelected in a huge landslide.

— January 1973: Two Nixon aides (G. Gordon Liddy, James McCord) are convicted in Watergate burglary.

— April 1973: White House counsel John Dean is fired, the attorney general and two top White House staffers resign over the scandal.

— July 1973: Former White House secretary tells Congress that Nixon taped all conversations in his office since 1971. Nixon reportedly orders tapes disconnected.

November 17, 1973: Nixon declares his innocence saying "I am not a crook."

— December 1973: 18-1/2 minute gap found in one White House tape.

— July 1974: Supreme Court orders White House to hand over 64 tapes of conversations. House passes first of three articles of impeachment.

— August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon announces resignation.

main people involved in the Watergate scandal

Richard M. Nixon 
Dwight L. Chapin 
Alexander P. Butterfield 
Kenneth W. Clawson 
Charles W. Colson 
John W. Dean III 
John D. Ehrlichman 
L. Patrick Gray III 
H. R. Haldeman 
E. Howard Hunt, Jr. 
Frederick C. LaRue 
Herbert W. Kalmbach 
Egil Krogh, Jr. 
G. Gordon Liddy 
Jeb Stuart Magruder 
Robert C. Mardian 
John N. Mitchell 
Robert C. Odle, Jr. 
Donald H. Segretti 
Herbert L. Porter 
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. 
Maurice H. Stans 
Gordon C. Strachan 
Ronald L. Ziegler 
James W. McCord, Jr. 
Donald E. Campbell 
Earl J. Silbert 
Seymour Glanzer 
John J. Sirica 
Katharine Graham 
Benjamin C. Bradlee 
Harry M. Rosenfeld 
Howard Simons 
Barry Sussman 
Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Howard Baker 
Bob Woodward 
Carl Bernstein 
Deep Throat 

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