ere found guilty of Watergate offences. On 21/2/1975 they were sentenced to between 2 ½ and 8 years in prison.
8/9/1974, President Nixon’s successor, Gerald Ford, issued Nixon an unconditional pardon for any crimes committed whilst in office.
9/8/1974. Gerald Ford sworn in as the 38th President of the USA. He succeeded Richard Nixon, who had resigned over Watergate, hence Ford became the first President not chosen by the US people in an election.
8/8/1974. Richard Nixon announced his resignation as US President after his implication in the Watergate scandal. President Ford granted a pardon to Nixon for any offences he might have committed in the Watergate affair. Nixon was the first American President to resign. See 9/5/1974. President Gerald Ford takes office as the 38th president. He was the first person not to have been elected by ballot to the Presidency or Vice Presidency.
5/8/1974. President Nixon admitted his complicity in the Watergate affair. See 27/7/1974 and 8/8/1974.
27/7/1974. A Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate affair.
12/7/1974, the US John Erlichman, former Director of Domestic Affairs at the White House, was found guilty of lying over the Watergate tapes.
9/5/1974. Impeachment proceedings were opened against President Nixon – see 2/3/1974 and 8/8/1974.
3/4/1974, President Nixon agreed to pay US$ 432,787 outstanding income tax.
17/3/1974, The Arab oil embargo, imposed om the US in 1973 in retaliation for US support for Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, was lifted.
2/3/1974. A USA Grand Jury decided Richard Nixon was involved in the Watergate cover up see 9/5/1974.
1/3/1974. 7 of President Nixon’s advisors were arrested over charges to obstruct justice in the Watergate investigation.
4/2/1974, Heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped.
14/12/1973. John Paul Getty II was freed by kidnappers after his grandfather paid a US$ 750,000 ransom.
10/10/1973, US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges.
15/7/1973. Paul Getty III was kidnapped
9/11/1973. Six Watergate burglars jailed in the US.
1/11/1973.. The Watergate Tapes case continued with President Richard Nixon in Washington.
26/10/1973, US President Nixon considered an attack on the Soviet Union, after hearing that the USSR was arming Arab nations in the Middle East.
23/10/1973, The US House of Representatives ordered a judicial committee to consider the evidence for impeaching President Nixon.
20/10/1973, Sixteen impeachment orders were raised in the US House of Representatives after President Nixon ordered the removal from office of a special prosecutor who had refused to do a deal over the Watergate tapes, see 16/7/1973 and 27/7/1974.
12/10/1973, The US Court of Appeals ordered Richard Nixon to hand over the Watergate Tapes.
31/7/1973, US Congress voted to cut off funds for US military action anywhere in Indochina.
16/7/1973, A former White House aide revealed that all conversations in the White House had been recorded, at President Nixon’s request, see 25/6/1973. Nixon flouted several subsequent court orders to release the tapes, see 20/10/1973.
25/6/1973, US President Nixon’s former legal counsel, John Dean, gave evidence at the Ervin Committee that directly contradicted Nixon’s statement regarding Watergate that he had made on 22/5/1973, see also 16/7/1973.
22/5/1973, President Nixon admitted concealing evidence of wrongdoing regarding Watergate (see 17/5/1973 and 25//6/1973), but denied knowing of the burglary before it took place.
17/5/1973. US Senate hearings over Watergate began. See 30/1/1973 and 22/5/1973.
4/5/1973, The Sears Tower in Chicago, then the world’s tallest office building at 1,454 feet and 110 storeys was ‘topped out’ when the highest storey was completed.
30/4/1973. 4 of Nixon’s aides resigned over Watergate.
23/4/1973, Henry Kissinger, head of the US National Security Council, called for a new ‘Atlantic Charter’ governing relations between the US, Europe and Japan.
18/4/1973, Nixon told Haldemann, a White House aide, to destroy the Watergate tapes. H