Watergate Scandal

  • Richard Nixon elected president

  • Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic

  • The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers – the Defense Department’s secret history of the Vietnam War.

  • A $25,000 cashier’s check, apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar

  • The Senate Watergate committee begins its nationally televised hearings.

  • John Dean has told Watergate investigators that he discussed the Watergate cover-up

  • The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts