Category Archives: Watergate

Ehrlichman warns Nixon of impeachment if Dean is “totally out of control” 40 years ago this hour (1973)

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Video: Apr. 25, 1973 (at 6:26)

(Wednesday, April 25, 1973, 11:06 a.m. EST; during the Watergate scandal) — “If (White House Counsel John) Dean (who is currently talking to prosecutors) is totally out of control,” Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman told U.S. President Richard Nixon today, “you could get an article of impeachment.” White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman later remembered that Nixon looked stunned.

Nixon attempts to make a deal with Dean 40 years ago today (1973)

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Video: Apr. 22, 1973 (at 8:24)

(Sunday, April 22, 1973, Easter Sunday; during the Watergate scandal) — Vacationing in his Key Biscayne, Florida home, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon called White House counsel John Dean today, hoping to appeal to Dean’s loyalty not to reveal any more, saying “I want you to know, John, you’re still my counsel.”

Nixon asks John Dean to resign 40 years ago today (1973)

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Video: Apr. 17, 1973 (at 16:26)

(Tuesday, April 17, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon, aware that White House Counsel John Dean is talking to the Watergate investigators, asks Dean to resign, passing him a drafted letter written in the form of a confession. Nixon also tells Dean that he is also planning to remove two of his top aides Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.

McCord names Dean in Watergate bugging 40 years ago today (1973)

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Video: Mar. 23-26, 1973 (at 2:39)

(Monday, March 26, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — James W. McCord Jr., a convicted Watergate conspirator, says White House Counsel John W. Dean, the man U.S. President Richard Nixon appointed to investigate the Watergate bugging, himself “was involved in preparations for the bugging,” the Los Angeles Times reported today.

McCord letter reveals ‘political pressure’ on Watergate defendants 40 years ago today (1973)

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Video: Mar. 23, 1973 (at 4:32)

(Friday, March 23, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants today, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter to him from James W. McCord Jr. which said there had been “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.” Continue reading McCord letter reveals ‘political pressure’ on Watergate defendants 40 years ago today (1973) →

Mitchell: Hunt no longer ‘a problem’ 40 years ago today (1973)

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Video: Mar. 22, 1973 (at 0:11)

(Thursday, March 22, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — In the West Wing office of White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman office, former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell told Haldeman, top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman and Presidential Counsel John Dean that former CIA officer and “E. Howard Hunt was not a ‘problem’ any longer,” suggesting the Watergate burglary organizer had been paid off.

Four more plead guilty to Watergate bugging charges 40 years ago today (1973)

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Video: Jan. 15, 1973 (at 13:30)

(Monday, January 15, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Four of the six remaining defendants in the Watergate trial pleaded guilty to all charges today, leaving only G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr. still standing trial for conspiracy, burglary and illegal eavesdropping of Democratic national headquarters in June 1972.

E. Howard Hunt pleads guilty in Watergate burglary 40 years ago today (1973)

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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.