Watergate Scandal @Nixonwetwork

After my role in the watergate conspiracy came to light I resign✌@boyd_adrien

I'm a president so it doesn't make it illegal@boyd_adrien

White House press secretary Ron Ziegler describes the incident as a "third-rate burglary."

June 17, 1972 - Five men are arrested after breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington

Nixon leaves the White House following his resignation over the Watergate scandal in 1974.

E. Howard Hunt - Pleaded guilty to burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping and served 33 months.

E. Howard Hunt - Former CIA agent, counsel to CREEP, and organizer of the Watergate break-in.

Virgilio R. Gonzalez - Pleaded guilty to wiretapping and theft and served 16 months.

One of the Watergate burglars. Pleaded guilty to wiretapping and theft and served 14 months in prison.

August 9, 1974 - Nixon signs a letter of resignation and Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president.

The remaining tapes, reveal a conversation from June 23, 1972 that proves the president's knowledge of the cover-up from the beginning

The Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Nixon must immediately turn over the original recordings of over 64 conversations.

April 30, 1974 - The White House releases edited transcripts, more than 1,200 pages, of the presidential tapes.

November 21, 1973 - The White House reveals that one of the subpoenaed recordings, dated June 20, 1972, has an 18-minute gap.

October 10, 1972 - The Washington Post publishes a story says the FBI believes the Watergate break in was done by aides to President Nixon.

The story of Watergate has an intriguing historical and political background, arising out of political events of the 1960s such as Vietnam.

Watergate has entered the political lexicon as a term synonymous with corruption and scandal.

Rushawn McLean @boyd_adrien

"There were still simply too many unanswered questions in the case." @boyd_adrien