Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' (June 23, 1972, at 1:17:38)

(Friday, June 23, 1972, 10:04-11:39 a.m. EDT; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon and and his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, had a meeting today in the Oval Office during which the President discussed and approved a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. Continue reading President Nixon approves plan to use CIA to stop FBI’s Watergate investigation, sealing fate of his presidency 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 23 1972) →

Video: 'Watergate: The 18 ½ Minute Gap and Haldeman's Notes'

(Tuesday, June 20, 1972, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. EDT; during the Watergate scandal) — On their first day back at the White House after the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex and the arrest of five Nixon re-election operatives, President Richard Nixon and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman met today in the Oval Office. Continue reading Nixon, Haldeman discuss Watergate break-in during secret recording that would later be partially erased 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 20 1972) →

Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' (June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in at 43:06)

(Saturday, June 17, 1972, around 2:30 a.m. EDT; during the Watergate scandal) — President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall began early this morning when five burglars were arrested inside the the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building. Continue reading Five Nixon operatives arrested inside Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate complex 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 17 1972) →

Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' (First Watergate break-in at 40:15)

(Sunday, May 28, 1972, late evening EDT; during the Watergate scandal) — Operatives from President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., tonight and installed bugging equipment to monitor the party’s activities in the months leading up to the presidential election later that year. Continue reading Nixon operatives break into Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate complex for the first time 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 28 1972) →

Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' ('Operation Gemstone' approved at 34:42)

(Thursday, March 30, 1972; during the Watergate scandal) — Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, having assumed his new duties as head of the Committee to Re-elect the President on Mar. 1, 1972, allegedly approved “Operation Gemstone,” a proposed series of illegal activities to support the re-election of President Richard Nixon, including electronic surveillance (i.e. bugging telephones), during a meeting today in Key Biscayne, Florida. Continue reading Nixon re-election team approves illegal surveillance of political enemies 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 30 1972) →

Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' (Operation Gemstone at 29:16)

(Thursday, January 27, 1972, 11:00 a.m. EST; during the Watergate Scandal) — G. Gordon Liddy, Finance Counsel for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP, but often mocked by the acronym CREEP), presented Operation Gemstone, a $1 million campaign intelligence plan that involved a series of clandestine or illegal acts against political opponents of President Richard Nixon’s re-election. Continue reading G. Gordon Liddy proposes a series of criminal acts to disrupt political opposition to President Richard Nixon’s re-election 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 27 1972) →

Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' (Sept. 3, 1971, at 23:52)

(Friday, September 3, 1971, approximately 11:00 p.m. PDT; during the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Under the authorization of U.S. presidential adviser John Ehrlichman, the Beverly Hills, California, office of Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg (who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press, exposing systematic lies to the nation about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War), was broken into late tonight by a team of burglars. Continue reading White House ‘Plumbers’ break into office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 3 1971) →

(Wednesday, June 22, 1977, 11:25 a.m. CST) — John N. Mitchell, 63, became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison today as he began serving a sentence in Montgomery, Alabama, for his role in the Watergate cover-up.