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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.

• 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.
• May 17, 1973: Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings
• May 19, 1973: Independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety.
• 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.
• 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
• June 15, 1974: Woodward and Bernstein's book All the President's Men is published by Simon & Schuster (ISBN 0-671-21781-X)
• Congress moves 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.
• 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 off 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: W. Mark Felt, a former Associate Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation,

• Watergate Chronology from The Washington Post

• Indochina War timeline

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