* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

For example, the August 12, 1974 Doonesbury strip awarded a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of the Watergate scandal.

A panel from the famous Doonesbury “ Stonewall ” strip, referring to the Watergate scandal, from August 12, 1974 ; awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s as a reaction to the Watergate scandal, but proved incapable of articulating how the film related to the scandal.

Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for Escape from New York in 1976, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.

The film generated a lot of speculation and interest when news leaked that the film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal.

However, the audience interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U. S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment ( for obstruction of justice ) against President Richard Nixon.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

The film is a parody retelling the events of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U. S. president Richard Nixon.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

* 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

W. Mark Felt an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director, acted on conscience to provide reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with information that resulted in the Watergate scandal.

In the 1980s, US television featured the light espionage programmes Airwolf ( 1984 – 87 ) and MacGyver ( 1985 – 92 ), each rooted in the Cold War yet reflecting American citizens ' distrust of their government, after the crimes of the Nixon Government ( the internal, political espionage of the Watergate Scandal and the Vietnam War ) were exposed.

His intentional misinformation, that the " film you are about to see is true ", was a response to being " lied to by the government about things that were going on all over the world ", including Watergate, the 1973 oil crisis, and " the massacres and atrocities in the Vietnam War ".

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All five of the Watergate burglars were directly or indirectly tied to the 1972 CRP, causing Judge Sirica to suspect a conspiracy involving higher-echelon government officials.

Haig has been largely credited with keeping the government running while President Nixon was preoccupied with Watergate, and was seen as the " acting president " in Nixon's last months.

The Greek wiretapping case of 2004-05, also referred to as Greek Watergate, involved the illegal tapping of more than 100 mobile phones on the Vodafone Greece network belonging mostly to members of the Greek government and top-ranking civil servants.

However, public outrage forced Nixon to appoint a new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, who was charged with conducting the Watergate investigation for the government.

Colson expressed disapproval in Felt's role in the Watergate scandal, first in the context of Felt being an FBI employee who should have known better than to disclose the results of a government investigation to the press ( violating a fundamental tenet of FBI culture ), and second in the context of the trust placed in him ( which demanded a more active response, such as a face-to-face confrontation with the FBI director or Nixon or, had that failed, public resignation ).

In 1974 she was elected to the State House as a member of the " Watergate Class ," a group of newly elected legislators from both parties, who came into office on a " good government " mission and a strong sense of their ability to make significant improvements.

As executive editor of the Post from 1968 to 1991, he became a national figure during the presidency of Richard Nixon, when he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers and oversaw the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's stories documenting the Watergate scandal.

This archive has become what is undoubtedly the " most complete set of Watergate investigative records outside the government.

A protracted period of clue-searching and trail-following then ensued, with reporters, and eventually the United States Senate and the judicial system probing to see how far up the Executive branch of government the Watergate scandal, as it had come to be known, extended.

Unobtrusive or high threshold issues are those issues that are generally remote from just about everyone ( e. g. wrongdoing high up in the government like Watergate, plight of refugees from Syria ).

In this latest book, Dean, who has repeatedly described himself as a Goldwater conservative, built on Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience to argue that the Republican Party has gravely damaged all three of the branches of the federal government in the service of ideological rigidity and with no attention to the public interest or the general good.

The costly American intervention in Vietnam along with domestic scandals including the bugging of Democratic party headquarters ( the 1974 Watergate scandal ) are two examples of self-destructive government behavior that alienated citizens.

Following the Watergate scandal, President Gerald R. Ford wanted to sign FOIA-strengthening amendments in the Privacy Act of 1974, but concern ( by his chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld and deputy Richard Cheney ) about leaks and legal arguments that the bill was unconstitutional ( by government lawyer Antonin Scalia, among others ) persuaded Ford to veto the bill, according to documents declassified in 2004.

In 1977, four years after he had converted to Christianity, Fellowship member and Watergate conspirator Charles Colson described the group as a “ veritable underground of Christ ’ s men all through the U. S. government .”

The Rywin affair ( in Polish: afera Rywina, also labeled Rywingate in allusion to Watergate ) was a corruption scandal in Poland, which began in late 2002 while the post communist government of the SLD ( Democratic Left Alliance ) was in power.

He left the government in the later part of the Johnson administration, returning only in 1974 as Chief Counsel for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, which was then investigating the Watergate scandal and preparing articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon.

Mainly in part due to the Watergate scandal which has popularized the idea that a divided government is a beneficial for the country.

* March 17, 1973: Watergate burglar James McCord writes a letter to Judge John Sirica, claiming that some of his testimony was perjured under pressure and that the burglary was not a CIA operation, but had involved other government officials, thereby leading the investigation to the White House.