January 27, 1972: G Gordon Liddy, as Finance Chairman for Committee to Re-elect the President, presented a campaign intelligence plan that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party.
June 17, 1972 Watergate break-in occurs.
June 19, 1972, the press reported that one of the Watergate burglars was a GOP security officer.
Nov. 7, 1972, Nixon re-elected.
February 7, 1973, the United States Senate voted 77-to-0 to establish a select committee to investigate Watergate.
July 16, 1973, in front of a live, televised audience, chief minority counsel Fred Thompson asked Butterfield whether he was "aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President."
March 1, 1974, grand jury in DC indicted several former aides of Nixon, who became known as the Watergate 7 (Ehrlichman, Halderman, Colson, et al).
July 27, 1974, House Judiciary Committee voted 27-to-11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against the president: obstruction of justice.
August 9, 1974, Nixon resigns.
September 8, 1974 Ford pardons Nixon.
TWO AND A HALF YEARS FROM START TO FINISH.
