Timeline of the Watergate scandal: Difference between revisions

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* 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 bug]]s) the Democratic National Committee offices at the [[Watergate Hotel]].

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* "[[Saturday Night Massacre]]" - Nixon fires special prosecutor Cox and others.

* U.S. Supreme Court overturns suppression of [[free press]].

* Congress motions to [[impeach]] [[Nixon]]

* Nixon resigns [[presidency]]. [[Gerald Ford]] becomes President.

* U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends.