John Mitchell, former attorney general and head of the Nixon reelection campaign, denies any link to the operation. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "A $25,000 cashier’s check, supposedly earmarked for the Nixon campaign, winds up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar, The Washington Post reports.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "FBI agents determine that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, the Washington Post reports.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon is reelected in one of the largest presidential election landslides in history, crushing the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Former Nixon aides, G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr., are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty to charges.
•Video: Watergate court proceedings";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The Senate votes to create the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign activities. The Committee is chaired by Senator Sam Ervin (D., North Carolina). ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "James W. McCord writes a letter to Judge John Sirica claiming that the defendants who plead guilty to the Watergate burglary did so under duress and that others were involved as well. He claims that the burglars committed perjury at the urging of John Dean, Counsel to the President, and John Mitchell, the Attorney General. The allegations of a cover-up and obstruction of justice by high-ranking White House officials take the Watergate investigation to a new level.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon’s top White House staffers H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over brewing scandal. White House counsel John Dean is fired.
•Video: Watergate court proceedings ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up with President Nixon at least 35 times, The Washington Post reports.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon tells the Senate Committee that he will not testify before it and will not grant access to presidential documents, claiming Executive Privilege. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, states during congressional testimony that since 1971 Nixon has recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his office. A protracted legal battle over the presidential tapes begins between the White House, Congress and the Special Prosecutor’s office.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon refuses to hand over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon offers a compromise to the Senate Watergate Committee, proposing that John Stennis, a Democratic senator from Mississippi, be permitted to listen to the presidential tapes and prepare summaries for Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Archibald Cox rejects the Stennis compromise and events that become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre” ensue. Nixon demands that his Attorney-General, Elliot Richardson, fire the Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns in protest. In turn, Nixon orders the deputy Attorney-General, William Ruckelshaus, to fire Cox. Ruckelshaus refuses and is fired himself. Finally, Richard Bork, the Solicitor-General, and acting Attorney-General, fires Cox.
•Video: NBC's Tom Brokaw reports on Nixon court proceedings";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon declares, “I’m not a crook” in a televised question-and-answer session with Associated Press managing editors.
•Video: \"I am not a crook.\"";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The White House is unable to explain an 18 1/2 - minute gap in one of the subpoenaed tapes. Electronics experts claim that the gap is a result of five deliberate erasures. Chief of staff Alexander Haig says one theory is that “some sinister force” erased the segment. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee, but the committee insists that the tapes themselves be turned over. There is public shock at the foul language used by Nixon and others, and the term “expletive deleted” enters lexicon.
•Video: Nixon tapes revealed";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Impeachment hearings begin before the House Judiciary Committee.
•Video: Nixon impeachment ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The Supreme Court rules unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations, rejecting the president’s claim of executive privilege. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The House Judiciary Committee adopts the second article of impeachment, that charges Nixon with misuse of power and violation of his oath of office. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The House Judiciary Committee adopts its third article of impeachment, charging Nixon with failure to comply with the House subpoenas. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon releases transcripts of three conversations he had with Haldeman six days after the Watergate break-in. The June 23 tape becomes known as “The Smoking Gun” because it reveals that Nixon ordered the FBI to abandon its investigation on the break-in.
Nixon releases three more tapes that prove he ordered a cover-up of the burglary on June 23, 1972 and show that he was aware of the involvement of White House officials and the Campaign for the Re-election of the President (CREEP). After the release of “The Smoking Gun” tapes, it is clear that Nixon will be impeached and convicted in the Senate.
•Video: \"Smoking Gun\" tapes";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "In a televised address to the nation, Nixon announces that he will resign the next day at noon.
•Video: Nixon's resignation";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Key figures in the Watergate scandal";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Ben-Veniste worked as Chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975. He went on to work as chief counsel (minority) of the Senate Whitewater Committee and most recently was a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Washington Post reporter who doggedly investigated the initial break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex with colleague Bob Woodward. The co-byline reports from Woodward and Bernstein first raised the possible link between the burglars at the DNC and the committee to re-elect President Nixon.
-Coauthored “All the President’s Men” and the “Final Days” with Woodward and won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the Watergate scandal. Bernstein left the Washington Post in 1976 and has gone on to author several books.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon’s Solicitor-General who became the acting Attorney General during the “Saturday Night Massacre” and complied with Nixon’s request to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
-Bork went on to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, and was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987. His nomination was rejected by the Senate Democrats because of his conservative ideology- particularly his stances on abortion, affirmative action, and First Amendment rights. Most recently the author of “Slouching towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline.”";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon speechwriter who testified before the Senate Watergate committee that he knew of no operations to subvert the Democratic political campaign during the Nixon administration.
-Buchanan went onto work in the White House during the Ford and Reagan administrations. He was a presidential candidate in 1992, 1996, and 2000. A conservative columnist and political analyst today, Buchanan is a radio and television host and frequent contributor to MSNBC.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The Nixon aide who revealed in Senate testimony that President Nixon had a secret taping system inside the White House. Set off legal wrangling between Nixon, Congress, and the Special Prosecutor’s office over the release of the tapes.
-Retired from a management consulting firm he founded. Now 77, lives in San Diego. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Special Counsel to President Nixon. Considered by many to have been the “evil genius” in the administration, he set up the infamous “plumbers” unit of the administration and is rumored to have harbored ideas like firebombing the Brookings Institution.
-Plead guilty to charges of obstruction of justice in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office and served seven months in prison. After the Watergate scandal, Colson became a born-again Christian, founded the Prison Fellowship Ministries, and is now a Conservative Christian radio host and the author of numerous books including “How Now Shall We Live?”";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The Special Prosecutor in the Watergate investigation was the focus of Nixon’s ire in the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre.” Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus was fired rather than complying with Nixon’s orders to fire Cox, who had subpoenaed tapes of Nixon’s conversations in the White House.
-After Watergate, Cox was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He died in May 2004.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The former White House Counsel was fired by Nixon on April 30, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal.
Charged with obstruction of justice, he spent four months in jail for his role in the Watergate cover-up. He went on to work as an investment broker in Beverly Hills and is the author of several books, most recently “Worse than Watergate, the Secret Presidency of George W. Bush.”";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, became a character in the Watergate scandal as a target of the White House “plumbers” group and an example of the ‘dirty tricks’ employed by them. The “plumbers,” so called because of their efforts to plug leaks from the Nixon administration, broke into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in an effort to find damaging files on him.
-Ellsberg was tried for the release of the Pentagon Papers, but his case was dismissed on grounds of governmental misconduct against him. Since the dismissal of his case, he has been an outspoken anti-war activist, lecturer, and writer.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "President Nixon’s assistant for domestic affairs, he directed the White House “plumbers” unit. He also approved the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist for Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press. He resigned his position in the White House as the scandal heated up on April 30, 1973. He was convicted for obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and perjury in the Watergate case and spent 18 months in prison. After prison he lived in Sante Fe, New Mexico, became a radio commentator and wrote numerous books. Erlichman died at age 73 in 1999. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "As Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, Erwin (D- N.C.), who was first elected to Congress in 1954, became a household name during the televised Watergate hearings. After Watergate, Erwin retired to his hometown of Morganton, N.C. and died at the age of 88 in 1985.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The Washington Post publisher famously gained the ire of the Nixon White house for the publication of the Pentagon Papers and the coverage of the Watergate investigation.
Graham won a Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography “Personal History” and was the host of the Washington social scene until her death in 2001. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Nixon’s chief of staff, resigned as the Watergate scandal unraveled on April 30, 1973. The “smoking gun” part of the White House recordings that finally proved Nixon’s complicity in the Watergate cover-up included a conversation between Haldeman and Nixon discussing the need to stop the F.B.I. from investigating the Watergate burglary any further.
He was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice and served 18 months in prison. After prison Haldeman became a real estate developer in Southern California and wrote numerous books, one of which was published posthumously “The Haldeman Diaries.” He died at the age of 67 in 1993. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Hunt was a member of Nixon administration’s infamous “plumbers” team. Hunt organized the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate office complex and the burglary at Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, in order to find files on the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
He was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping and served 33 months in prison. After prison Hunt became a spy novelist with titles such as “Body Count,” “Chinese Red,” and “Murder in State.”";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The former FBI agent was a pivotal member of the White House “plumbers” team and helped plan the break-in of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate office complex.
Liddy was convicted for his role in the Watergate break-in, for conspiracy in the Daniel Ellsberg case, and for contempt of court. After serving about 4 1/2 years in prison for his convictions, Liddy set off on a successful career as the host of the “G. Gordon Liddy Show,” a nationally syndicated conservative radio show.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Magruder was the deputy director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) He was convicted for perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice for his role in the Watergate cover-up and spent seven months in prison.
After prison he earned a masters degree in divinity from the Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He went on to work as an executive minister in Ohio and a senior pastor in Kentucky. In 2003, Magruder revealed that he actually heard a phone call in which Nixon approved the plan to break-in to and bug the DNC offices at the Watergate. Previously it was believed that Nixon was only involved in the cover-up of the burglary and not the original execution. Magruder said he came forward after suffering a heart attack, but his claims have not been independently verified. ";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "The security director for the Committee for the Reelection of the President in 1972, McCord was one of the men arrested the night of burglary of the Watergate DNC offices along with four other men. He pleaded guilty to the burglary and was convicted to jail time. But McCord later wrote a letter to Judge Sirca claiming that the burglars had plead guilty under pressure from White House officials, such as John Dean and John Mitchell, and that perjury had been committed. McCord’s allegation that the White House was directly involved in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary helped push the investigation further.
After serving time in prison, McCord published “A piece of tape, The Watergate story: fact and fiction.”";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Served as attorney general before resigning in 1972 to head the Committee for the Re-election of the President. Mitchell was linked to the secret campaign fund that that paid for the Watergate burglary and according to later testimony, approved $250,000 for the break-in.
Mitchell was convicted on charges of conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice in the Watergate case. He served 19 months in a minimum-security prison in Alabama, and was released on parole for medical reasons. The ultimate Nixon loyalist never wrote any tell-all books after the Watergate ordeal and lived out his life in Georgetown. Nixon lead his funeral procession when Mitchell died at age 75 in 1988. As a decorated Navy veteran, Mitchell was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "President Nixon was the 37th President of the United States. Winning the presidential election in 1968 marked a landmark and a major comeback for the politician who was narrowly defeated by John F. Kennedy in 1960 and went on to lose the election as governor of California in 1962.
Nixon was the first president to resign from office on Aug. 9, 1974 as a result of the Watergate scandal. He was pardoned for any involvement in the Watergate affair by President Ford. After leaving the White House, he went on to author numerous books on foreign policy and his experiences in public life. He died April 22, 1994";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Richardson became a national hero and set off a constitutional crisis when as the Attorney General he refused Nixon’s demand that he fire the Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who had subpoenaed tapes of Nixon’s conversations in the White House. Richardson resigned instead, and set off a series of events that became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre.”
Richardson went on to serve as an ambassador to the U.K. under President Ford and an ambassador at large under President Carter. He went on to practice law and wrote on national security issues until his death at age 79 in 1999.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "As Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Sirica became a household name as the judge that presided over the Watergate case. In 1973, Sirica ordered Nixon to turn over the tape recordings from the White House to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The Supreme Court upheld his ruling in 1974, triggering Nixon resignation in the face of certain impeachment.
Sirica was named Man of the Year by Time magazine for the year 1973, wrote about his experiences during the Watergate scandal “To Set the Record Straight,” and remained on the bench until retirement in 1985. He died at age 88 in 1992.";
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nixon_watergateTL_04[i-1].body = "Washington Post reporter who doggedly investigated the initial break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex with colleague Carl Bernstein. The co-byline reports from Woodward and Bernstein for the Washington Post first raised the link between the burglars at the DNC and the committee to re-elect President Nixon.
Coauthored “All the President’s Men” and the “Final Days” with Woodward and won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the Watergate scandal. Woodward has been the Assistant Managing Editor of Investigative News for The Washington Post since 1982 and has authored numerous books, most recently the best-seller “Plan of Attack,” that details a behind the scene account of how President Bush decided to wage war against Iraq."; // END editorial data