Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (at 13:25)
(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Former CIA agent and White House aide E. Howard Hunt, one of the seven defendants in the Watergate bugging case, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping in the June 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters, leaving six other defendants to face trial.
Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (6:03)
(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Vietnam War) — National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger cabled U.S. President Richard Nixon from Paris today that the agreement to end the Vietnam War was ready. The terms were almost identical to those laid down in October 1972.
Video: 'AIR FORCE ONE: THE PLANES AND THE PRESIDENTS" (PART 1)' (Jan. 11, 1943, at 3:58)
(Monday, January 11, 1943, shortly after 6:00 a.m. local time; during World War II) — Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly while in office today as he left Miami today for a top-secret meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Morocco. Continue reading Franklin Roosevelt becomes first sitting U.S. president to fly in a plane 70 years ago this hour (1943)
