Video: June 21, 1972 (at 7:53)
(Wednesday, June 21, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon, by now deeply involved in the Watergate cover-up, today proposed to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman to use the CIA background of E. Howard Hunt (one of two engineers of the Watergate burglary) to confuse the FBI, among other things.
Video: June 21, 1972 (continued)
Video: June 20, 1972 (at 4:23)
(Tuesday, June 20, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon said he called John Mitchell tonight to cheer him up because Mitchell was chagrined because he had not properly controlled those under him — in the re-election campaign, which he headed — and the Watergate burglary was embarrassing the administration.
Video: Washington Post connects Watergate break-in with White House (at 6:23)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — Based on a tip from Deep Throat, the pseudonym given to a secret informant (later identified as Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt), Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward discovered today that one of the Watergate burglars had E. Howard Hunt in his address book and possessed checks signed by him, and that Hunt was connected to White House aide Charles Colson.
Video: June 19, 1972 (at 1:53)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — White House Counsel John Dean was chosen today to head up the Watergate burglary cover-up, meeting on a park bench near the White House with G. Gordon Liddy, who offered himself to be shot. Continue reading Dean takes charge of Watergate cover-up 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: June 18, 1972 (at 1:08)
(Sunday, June 18, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon says he learned of yesterday’s burglary at the Watergate complex today when he read a small article on the front page of The Miami Herald newspaper while he was vacation with his friend Bebe Rebozo in Key Biscayne, Florida.
Video: Video: June 18, 1972 (at 0:20)
Watergate. Part 3 of 30
(Wednesday, August 11, 1971) — A plan by E. Howard Hunt, one of the Nixon White House “Plumbers” (a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks” to leading newspapers), to burglarize the office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to steal his files on Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers, was approved by Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Wednesday, July 28, 1971) — E. Howard Hunt, one of the Nixon White House “plumbers” — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks,” proposed to Nixon Special Counsel Charles Colson that the “plumbers” burglarize the office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to steal his files on Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers, to discredit him. Continue reading Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Saturday, July 24, 1971, 12:36pm ET) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered lie detector tests for government officials following a series of national security leaks in The New York Times, including the Pentagon Papers.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Friday, July 23, 1971) — The New York Times newspaper printed another leak today, giving away the Nixon administration’s fallback position in nuclear missile negotiations with the Soviets.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Sunday, July 11, 1971) — White House Counsel John Dean flew to San Clemente, California, today to tell Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman that a plan to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which was conducting a study of American involvement in Vietnam thought to be another “Pentagon Papers” covering the Nixon years, should be abandoned. Ehrlichman called the operation off.
