Watergate Campaign Link
Revelations begin regarding bugging the Democratic Party election HQ at Watergate.
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
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Richard Milhous Nixon Biography and Timeline — Page 12
Follow Richard Milhous Nixon through 480 dated historical records for United States of America.
Richard Milhous Nixon, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
480Distinct records
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1973–1994Years on this page
1973
Peace
The last ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam. Conclusion of peace negotiations by Henry Kissinger & an end of US involvement
Role range: 1960-1975 – 1969-1974
1974
Impeachment
The House voted to authorized the Judiciary Committee to investigate grounds for impeaching president Nixon
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate
The House voted to authorized the Judiciary Committee to investigate grounds for impeaching president Nixon.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Indictment
Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October. Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
Indictment
Richard Milhous Nixon is included among defendants charged in the federal Watergate cover-up case returned by the grand jury.
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
Indictment
Richard Milhous Nixon is included among defendants charged in the federal Watergate cover-up case returned by the grand jury.
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
Indictment
Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October. Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Indictment
Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C. Strachan, aide to Mitchellll and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Unindicted Co-Conspirator
Is secretly named by the Watergate grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator in the alleged cover-up while still serving as president.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate Seven
Refers to the seven advisors and aides to United States President Richard M. Nixon who were indicted by a grand jury on March 1, 1974 for their role in the Watergate scandal.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate Seven
The grand jury also named Nixon an unindicted conspirator. The indictments marked the first time in U.S. history that a president was so named.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate
The Watergate grand jury names Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator in the alleged cover-up.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate
The US Grand Jury says Nixon is involved in the Watergate cover-up
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Tape Transcript Address
Announces that edited transcripts of subpoenaed Watergate conversations will be released while refusing to surrender all original recordings demanded by the House committee.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate Transcripts Released
Provides more than twelve hundred pages of edited presidential conversation transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee and makes them public.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
White House Tapes
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 must be turned over.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Trial
The House Judiciary Committee opens impeachment hearings on Nixon
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
ABM Treaty
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
Role range: 1969-1974
ABM Treaty
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to the Protocol to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement, which limits ABM deployment to a single area.
Role range: 1969-1974
Threshold Test Ban Treaty Signed
Signs the Threshold Test Ban Treaty limiting underground nuclear weapon tests to yields of 150 kilotons or less.
Role range: 1969-1974
Treaty of Threshold Test Ban Treaty
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
Role range: 1969-1974 – 1969-1974
Smoking Gun Tape Released
Releases transcripts of June 23, 1972 conversations showing his early participation in efforts to limit the FBI's Watergate funding investigation.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Resignation Address
Announces in a televised address that he will resign the presidency at noon the following day as congressional support collapses.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate
Faced with the threat of impeachment
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Watergate
Nixon faces an imminent impeachment process as congressional support for his presidency collapses.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Presidential Resignation
Formally resigns the presidency in a letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, becoming the first United States president to leave office by resignation.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Pardon
Given a pardon by Gerald ford for involvement in Watergate
Role range: 1968-1974 – 1969-1974
Pardon
Nixon receives a full presidential pardon from Gerald Ford for federal offenses he committed or may have committed while president.
Role range: 1968-1974 – 1969-1974
Pardon Accepted
Accepts President Ford's pardon and states that he hopes the decision will help lift the burden of Watergate from the country.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
Pardon
Given a pardon by Gerald ford for involvement in Watergate
Role range: 1968-1974 – 1969-1974
Pardon
Receives a "full, complete & absolute pardon" from Gerald Ford.
Role range: 1972-1974 – 1969-1974
ABM Treaty
The 1974 Protocol reduces the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site, the sites are Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota
Role range: 1969-1974
Budget
The House of Representatives rejects Nixon's $474M increase in military aid to Saigon
Role range: 1960-1975 – 1969-1974
1978
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
Publication of "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon"
Role range: 1969-1974
1980
The Real War
Publication of "The Real War"
Role range: 1969-1974
1985
No More Vietnams
Publication of "No More Vietnams"
Role range: 1969-1974
1990
Defeat and Renewal
Publication of "Defeat & Renewal"
Role range: 1969-1974
1994
Death of Richard Milhous Nixon
Death of Richard Nixon
Role range: 1969-1974
Beyond Peace
Publication of "Beyond Peace"
Role range: 1969-1974
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.