![]() ![]() ![]() Nixon announces that John Dean has completed an internal investigation into the Watergate break-in, and has found no evidence of White House involvement. Over the course of nearly two years, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein continue to file stories about the Watergate scandal, relying on many sources.īob Woodward (left) and Carl Bernstein in the Washington Post newsroom, 1973. August 1, 1972Īn article in The Washington Post reports that a check for $25,000 earmarked for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign was deposited into the bank account of one of the men arrested for the Watergate break-in. Mark Felt, the associate director of the FBI, was only revealed three decades later. June 20, 1972īob Woodward has his first of several meetings with the source and informant known as “ Deep Throat,” whose identity, W. Another young Post reporter, Carl Bernstein, volunteers to make some phone calls to learn more about the burglary. June 17, 1972Ī young Washington Post crime reporter, Bob Woodward, is sent to the arraignment of the burglars. Days later, the White House denied involvement in the break-in. Among the items found in their possession were bugging devices, thousands of dollars in cash and rolls of film. June 17, 1972įive men are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. for the first time, bugging the telephones of staffers. Liddy’s team breaks into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Gordon Liddy, is transferred to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), where he obtains approval from Attorney General John Mitchell for a wide-ranging plan of espionage against the Democratic Party. On September 9, the "plumbers" break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, in an unsuccessful attempt to steal psychiatric records to smear Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press. Nixon and his staff recruit a team of ex-FBI and CIA operatives, later referred to as “the Plumbers” to investigate the leaked publication of the Pentagon Papers.
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