Timeline of the Watergate scandal —regarding attempts by the sitting U.S. President to discredit an anti-war whistleblower of official capacity, and upon exposure of related improprieties, to use the powers of office to silence political and legal opposition. The Watergate Complex as depicted in Government Exhibit 1. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... A whistleblower is an employee, former employee, or member of an organization who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power to take corrective action. ...

• 1964 - U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins.
• Daniel Ellsberg begins work at The Pentagon.
• Ellsberg acquires the Pentagon Papers
• Ellsberg gives copies to Neil Sheehan
• June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers. The Washington Post soon follows
• Richard Nixon reacts with outrage
• September 9, 1971: The "White House Plumbers" burglarizes the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, seeking damaging information.
• June 17, 1972: "White House Plumbers" are arrested at 2:30 a.m. in process of burgularizing (planting surveillance bugs) the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel.
• Independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety.
• May 18, 1973: Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings
• June 3, 1973: John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he has discussed the cover-up with Nixon at least 35 times
• July 13, 1973: Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals that all conversations and telephone calls in Nixon’s office have been taped since 1971
• July 18, 1973: Nixon orders White House taping systems disconnected
• July 23, 1973: Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapings to Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor
• October 20, 1973: "Saturday Night Massacre" - Nixon fires special prosecutor Cox and others.
• U.S. Supreme Court overturns suppression of free press.
• Congress motions to impeach Nixon
  • July 27 to July 30, 1974: House Judiciary Committee passes articles of Impeachment
  • Early August 1974: A previously unknown tape from June 23, 1972 (recorded a few days after the break-in) documents Nixon and Haldeman formulating a plan to block investigations.
  • Key Republican Senators tell Nixon that enough votes existed to convict him.
• April 30, 1974: White House releases edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes but the House Judiciary Committee insists the actual tapes must be turned over
• August 9, 1974: Nixon resigns presidency. Gerald Ford becomes President.
• September 8, 1974: President Ford ends investigations by granting Nixon a pardon.
• U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends.
  • December 1974: the US Congress cuts of all military funding to South Vietnam.
  • April 30, 1975: The war ends with the Fall of Saigon and the collapse of South Vietnam.
• 1976: The movie All the President's Men starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and Hal Holbrook is released.
• 22 April 1994: Richard Nixon dies.
• May 21, 2005: Deep Throat, secret source to Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reveals his identity.

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See also

• Indochina War timeline