- 1823
| Apr 03 | William M. (Marcy) ‘Boss’ Tweed political boss: New York City: known for his Tweed ‘Ring’ which stole thirty to two hundred million dollars from NYC; is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1874
| Nov 19 | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. | Ref: 5 |
- 1875
| Dec 04 | William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of NY City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country. | Ref: 70 |
- 1876
| Nov 23 | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, leader of New York City's corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain. | Ref: 3 |
- 1878
| Apr 12 | William March "Boss" Tweed, NYC political boss, dies at age 55. | Ref: 68 |
- 1896
| Sep 27 | Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, Sam Ervin (D-NC) is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1903
| Oct 25 | Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin. | Ref: 5 |
- 1904
| Mar 19 | John Sirica, U.S. federal judge that presided over Watergate trials and hearings, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1905
| Sep 19 | Leon Jaworski attorney: Watergate special prosecutor; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1909
| Jun 07 | Congressman Peter Rodino (D-NJ); chaired Watergate hearings, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1912
| May 17 | Archibald Cox, special prosecutor in the Watergate hearings, fired by President Nixon, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1913
| Aug 09 | Herman Talmadge (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 05 | John Newton Mitchell, American attorney general under Nixon (1977-9), is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1914
| Mar 09 | US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico". | Ref: 5 |
- 1917
| Jul 07 | Lawrence F O'Brien, former head of U.S. Postal Service, N.B.A. commissioner (1975-84), Watergate conspirators broke into his office, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1918
| Oct 09 | E Howard Hunt Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1920
| Jul 20 | Elliot Richardson, the American public official best known for his refusal to obey President Richard M. Nixon's order to fire a special prosecutor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1921
| May 30 | The US Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior. | Ref: 2 |
- 1922
| Apr 07 | U.S. Secretary of Interior leases the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve #3 in Wyoming to Harry F Sinclair. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 15 | Senate begins investigation of U.S. oil lands illegal lease to private company Teapot Dome Scandal. | Ref: 10 |
| Jul 12 | Clark MacGregor politician (involved in Watergate), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1923
| Oct 25 | The Teapot Dome scandal comes to public attention as Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, subcommittee chairman, reveals the findings of the past 18 months of investigation. His case will result in the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, and later Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, the first cabinet member in American history to go to jail. The scandal, named for the Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, involved Fall secretly leasing naval oil reserve lands to private companies. | Ref: 2 |
- 1924
| Feb 18 | US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal. | Ref: 5 |
- 1925
| Mar 20 | John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Richard M. Nixon and Watergate conspirator, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1926
| Oct 27 | HR Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff and Watergate figure, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1929
| Oct 25 | Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe in connection with the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in CA as part of the Teapot Dome scandal. | Ref: 5 |
- 1930
| Mar 22 | Edward L. Doheny of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company goes on trial for bribing former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall to obtain leases to valuable naval oil reserves in the Teapot Dome Scandal. | Ref: 3 |
| Nov 30 | G Gordon Liddy Watergate felon, radio talk-show host, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1931
| Oct 16 | Charles W Colson presidential adviser, Watergate figure, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1938
| Oct 14 | John Dean III former White House counsel, Watergate figure is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1943
| Mar 26 | Bob Woodward investigative reporter: Washington Post: Watergate [w/reporter Carl Bernstein]; author: All the President’s Men [w/Carl Bernstein], The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court [w/Scott Armstrong], The Agenda : Inside the Clinton White House, is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1967
| Jun 23 | US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds. | Ref: 5 |
- 1968
| Jun 28 | Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers. | Ref: 5 |
- 1969
| Nov 13 | Speaking in Des Moines, IA, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints. | Ref: 5 |
- 1970
| Nov 13 | VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs". | Ref: 5 |
- 1971
| Jun 26 | The US Justice Department issues a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 06 | White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 20 | FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 03 | The Watergate burglars break into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
| Feb 29 | Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party. | Ref: 5 |
| May 28 | White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 17 | Security guard Frank Willis called Washington police to report a breakin at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate office building. The arrest of five men with ties to the Committee to Re-elect the President resulted in a scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon more than two years later. | Ref: 25 |
| Jun 23 | President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 01 | First article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward). | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 30 | President Nixon announces that John Dean had completed his investigation into the Watergate wiretapping debacle. And he added that no one from the White House was involved. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 04 | Judge John Sirca imposes a gag order on the Watergate break-in case. | Ref: 2 |
- 1973
| Jan 08 | Watergate trials begin in Washington. | Ref: 10 |
| Jan 11 | Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | Four of six remaining Watergate defendants plead guilty. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 30 | Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 26 | A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 19 | Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency". | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 27 | During the Watergate scandal, William D. Ruckelshaus was appointed Acting Director of the FBI by President Nixon following the resignation of L. Patrick Gray III. | Ref: 14 |
| Apr 30 | President Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean. | Ref: 5 |
| May 11 | Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct. (Go to article.) | Ref: 70 |
| May 17 | Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., opened the Senate hearings into the Watergate scandal. | Ref: 70 |
| May 22 | President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 23 | A subpoena was served on Richard Nixon asking for the White House tapes | Ref: 62 |
| Jun 25 | White House Counsel John Dean admits President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 27 | Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 16 | During the Senate Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 12 | President Richard Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 19 | President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 20 | The Saturday Night Massacre. Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resign. Suspicions around Richard Nixon's complicity in the Watergate break-in mount. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 23 | President Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 01 | Following the "Saturday Night Massacre," Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appoints Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 17 | President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 21 | President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 26 | Rose Mary Woods, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, told a federal court she had accidentally erased over eighteen minutes of a ‘Watergate tape’ made June 20,. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 09 | Following the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, House Speaker Gerald Ford became the U.S.’s first appointed Vice President. Later, he became the nation’s first non-elected President upon the resignation of Richard Nixon. | Ref: 4 |
- 1974
| Jan 04 | President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 15 | Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | A federal grand jury indicted seven men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and White House special counsel Charles Colson, for conspiracy to obstruct justice. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 02 | A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 11 | The Judiciary committee subpoenas President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 29 | President Richard Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings. | Ref: 5 |
| May 02 | Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals. | Ref: 70 |
| May 09 | The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. | Ref: 70 |
| May 29 | President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts. | Ref: 2 |
| Jun 03 | Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 11 | House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 12 | G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others are convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate scandal. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 13 | The Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms in an effort to prevent another Watergate scandal. | Ref: 6 |
| Jul 14 | John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 19 | The House Judiciary Committee recommends that President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 24 | The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 27 | The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-to-11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 29 | 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 30 | One of the President Nixon’s main men, John Erlichman was sentenced to prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. Ellsberg was the Pentagon consultant who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" (which purportedly told Americans how and why the US really got into the Vietnam War). Ehrlichman also created the White House unit that was called the ‘plumbers’ because it was intended to plug leaks. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 30 | House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 05 | President Nixon releases three tapes to the public. One tape made it clear that Nixon had been involved actively in the cover-up from its beginnings. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 08 | President Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 09 | Gerald Ford is sworn in as president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon. | Ref: 25 |
| Sep 08 | President Ford pardons former President Nixon. "…grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from July (January) 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974." (XDG, p 4A, 9/8/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 22 | Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President Nixon | Ref: 62 |
| Oct 01 | Five Nixon aides--Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell--go on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 03 | Watergate trial begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 07 | Police stop the car of Senator Wilbur Mills, stripper Fanne Fox jumps into fountain | Ref: 62 |
- 1975
| Jan 01 | Ex-Atty. Gen. Mitchell, H.R. Halderman and John Ehrlichman are convicted on cover-up charges relating to Watergate break-in | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 08 | Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman are sentenced to 2½-8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 10 | David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon. | Ref: 5 |
- 1976
| May 25 | US Representative Wayne L. Hays (Democrat, Ohio) admitted to a "personal relationship" with Elizabeth Ray, a committee staff member who claimed she'd received her job in order to be Hays' mistress. | Ref: 6 |
| May 31 | Martha Mitchell (Beall) socialite: wife of US Attorney General John Mitchell of the Nixon administration; dies in New York at 57. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 28 | Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate related convictions. | Ref: 70 |
- 1977
| May 04 | Former President Richard M. Nixon spoke with interviewer, David Frost in the first of four television interviews. Nixon had been in seclusion for the two previous months. | Ref: 4 |
| May 23 | Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 21 | Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 22 | Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 28 | Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 07 | Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years. | Ref: 70 |
- 1978
| Apr 27 | Convicted Watergate defendant John D. Ehrlichman was released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 20 | H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail. | Ref: 5 |
- 1979
| Jan 19 | Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama. | Ref: 70 |
- 1980
| Feb 02 | Reports surfaced that the FBI had conducted a sting operation targeting members of Congress using phony Arab businessmen in what became known as "Abscam," a codename protested by Arab-Americans. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 13 | Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 02 | Michael Myers (D-Pa), is first rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM). | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | Rep. John W. Jenrette, D-S.C., resigned to avoid being expelled from the House following his conviction on charges relating to the FBI's Abscam investigation. | Ref: 70 |
- 1981
| Feb 25 | Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr (D-NJ) was convicted in NY of charges related to the FBI's "ABSCAM" probe. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | Oliver North is assigned to White House duty. | Ref: 5 |
- 1982
| Dec 09 | Leon Jaworski attorney: Watergate special prosecutor; dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
- 1983
| May 14 | President Reagan grants a pardon to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez. Reagan refuses to pardon E Howard Hunt or Jeb Stuart Magruder. ("May 14, Your Birthday", Natalis Press, ©1990) | |
| Jul 14 | Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages. | Ref: 5 |
- 1985
| Apr 23 | Samuel Ervin, (Sen-D-NC); chairman of the committee that investigated Watergate, dies at age 88. | Ref: 70 |
- 1986
| Jan 22 | Ghorbanifar first suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 10 | President Ronald Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale. | Ref: 2 |
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| Nov 21 | The Justice Department begins an inquiry into the National Security Council into what will become known as the Iran-Contra scandal. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 22 | Justice Department finds memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North's office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 25 | As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department's findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North's office. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 25 | The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 25 | Marine Col. Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter fired in Iran-Contra affair. | Ref: 10 |
| Nov 26 | President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | Lt. Col. Oliver North pleads the fifth amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran Contra arms sale. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 17 | US Congress forms "Irangate" committee. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 17 | Eugene Hasenfus, the American convicted by Nicaragua for his part in running guns to the Contras, was pardoned and released. | Ref: 70 |
- 1987
| Jan 09 | The White House released a memorandum prepared for President Reagan in January 1986 that showed a definite link between U.S. arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 17 | President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 26 | The Tower Commission issued its report on the Iran-Contra affair, rebuking President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 04 | President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 12 | Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North. | Ref: 5 |
| May 05 | The congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | Fawn Hall, secretary to national security aide Oliver L. North, testified at the Iran-Contra hearings, saying she had helped to shred some documents. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 07 | Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 08 | Lt. Col. Oliver North became a daytime TV star, pulling in more viewers than many game shows and soap operas. He captured center stage as the Iran-Contra hearings were televised throughout the US | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 14 | Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 15 | John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 17 | Lt. Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress regarding the Iran-Contra scandal. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 03 | The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended, with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 18 | The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides. | Ref: 70 |
- 1988
| Jan 11 | Vice President George H.W. Bush met with representatives of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 25 | Vice President Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in the Iran-Contra affair. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter, former White House aide Oliver L. North, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, were indicted on charges relating to the Iran-Contra affair. (Poindexter and North had their convictions thrown out; Secord and Hakim received probation.) | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 24 | Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded innocent to Iran-Contra charges. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 29 | US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 05 | Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 09 | Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, dies in Washington at age 75. (TWA, 1990) | Ref: 95 |
| Dec 30 | President Reagan and President-elect Bush were subpoenaed to testify as defense witnesses in the pending Iran-Contra trial of Oliver North. (The subpoenas were subsequently quashed.) | Ref: 70 |
- 1989
| Mar 03 | Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury. | Ref: 5 |
| May 04 | Fired White House aide Oliver North was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes and acquitted of nine other charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair. (The three convictions were overturned on appeal). | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 30 | Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 05 | Former National Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in Iran-Contra. The convictions were later overturned. | Ref: 70 |
- 1990
| Jan 18 | Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in an FBI sting on drug-possession charges. (He was later convicted of a misdemeanor). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.) | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 20 | A federal appeals court sets aside Oliver North's Iran-Contra convictions. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 28 | Lawrence F O'Brien, former head of U.S. Postal Service, N.B.A. commissioner (1975-84), Watergate conspirators broke into his office, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 15 | The Senate Ethics Committee begins hearings on the "Keating Five", senators accused of going too far in helping failed savings-and-load owner Charles Keating Jr. (XDG, p 4A, 11/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 05 | Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty. | Ref: 5 |
- 1991
| Apr 22 | The White House promised a full accounting of chief of staff John Sununu's travels as it sought to stem political fallout over reports of his extensive personal use of military jets. | Ref: 6 |
| May 15 | Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama". | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 20 | CA Democrat Alan Cranston accepted a Senate reprimand for his dealings with former savings-and-loan chief Charles H. Keating Jr., but then denied he was guilty of many of the allegations, prompting an angry rebuttal by New Hampshire Republican Warren B. Rudman. | Ref: 64 |
| Dec 05 | Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud. | Ref: 5 |
- 1992
| Jan 27 | Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 16 | Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair (He was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.) | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 14 | John Sirica, U.S. federal judge: presided over Watergate trials and hearings; dies at age 88. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 17 | Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his five-and-a-half-year probe of the Iran-Contra scandal. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 21 | Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women over the years. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 24 | Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger pleaded innocent to making a false statement in the Iran-Contra affair. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 24 | President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal. (Go to article.) | Ref: 70 |
- 1993
| Jan 23 | New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | Gerhard Gesell judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 12 | Former Nixon White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman dies in Santa Barbara, California, at age 67. (also TWA, 1995) | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 04 | Frank Sturgis watergate burglar, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 10 | Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee line up one-by-one in favor of impeaching President Clinton; Democrats vow opposition after lawyers clas in closing arguments over "high crimes and misdemeanors". (XDG, p 4A, 12/10/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 16 | Bob Packwood (Sen-R-OR), accused by more than two dozen women of sexual harassment, turned over his tape-recorded personal diaries to a federal judge. (XDG, p 4A, 12/16/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 23 | President Clinton, under intense political pressure, instructs his attorney to give the Justice Dept all records of his investment in an Arkansas real estate partnership linked to a failed savings and loan. (XDG, p 4A, 12/23/2003) | Ref: 83 |
- 1994
| Mar 05 | White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum resigns in the wake of the turmoil over the Clinton administration's handling of questions related to Whitewater. (XDG, p 4A, 3/05/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 06 | Vice President Al Gore and White House advisor George Stephanopoulos appear on Sunday TV talk shows to blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater. (XDG, p 4A, 3/06/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 24 | President Clinton holds a news conference in which he acknowledges he had significantly overstated the loss in his Whitewater land investment and promised to release late 1970s tax returns to answer questions on the land deal. (XDG, p 4A, 3/24/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 05 | A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington chose Kenneth W. Starr to take over the Whitewater investigation from Robert Fiske. | Ref: 70 |
- 1996
| Jan 26 | First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury connected to the Whitewater probe. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 09 | Dan Rostenkowski, the once-powerful House Ways and Means chairman, pleaded guilty to two mail fraud charges in a deal that brought with it a 17-month prison term. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 28 | President Clinton gave 4½ hours of videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 19 | A judge sentenced former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 21 | After two years of denials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted violating House ethics rules. | Ref: 70 |
- 1997
| Jan 21 | Speaker Newt Gingrich is reprimanded and fined as the House voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 21 | Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr reverses his decision to resign. (XDG, p 4A, 2/21/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Apr 14 | Whitewater figure James McDougal drew a three-year prison sentence for 18 felony fraud and conspiracy counts. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 11 | Henry Cisneros, President Clinton's first housing secretary, was indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstructing justice and making false statements about payments to his former mistress. | Ref: 70 |
- 1998
| Jan 07 | Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying she had an affair with President Clinton. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 12 | Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 13 | Linda Tripp wore a hidden microphone for the FBI and recorded a conversation with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (XDG, p 4A, 1/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 14 | Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. (Sources quoted Mrs Clinton as saying she knew nothing about any such collection of files.) (XDG, p. 4A, 1/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 21 | President Clinton angrily denied reports he'd had an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and had tried to get her to lie about it. | Ref: 6 |
| Jan 23 | Fighting scandal allegations involving Monica Lewinsky, President Clinton assured his Cabinet that he was innocent. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 26 | President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky". | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Shaken by scandal over his relationship with former White House Intern Monica Lewinsky, President Clinton sought to reassert his leadership in his State of the Union address urging Congress to "save Social Security first" before considering cutting taxes or increasing spending. (XDG, p 4A, 1/27/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 27 | First Lady Hillary Clinton, on NBC's Today Show, charged allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy". (XDG, p 4A, 1/27/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 01 | In a round to Sunday talk show appearances, Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, predicted that the controversy over whether the former White House intern had an affair with President Clinton would "go away" and the president would survive unscathed. (XDG, p 4A, 2/1/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 06 | When the subject of Monica Lewinsky came up in a news conference, President Clinton said he would "never" resign. (XDG, p 4A, 2/6/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 11 | KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for an interview. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | Presidential confidant Vernon Jordan testifies before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky matter. (XDG, p 4A, 3/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 08 | Whitewater figure James McDougal died in a federal medical prison in Fort Worth, TX, at age 57. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 25 | Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 30 | President Clinton questions the conduct of Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and dismisses Republican challenges to his own character as "high level static", during a news conference. (XDG, p 4A, 4/30/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 17 | Prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky case questioned President Clinton's Secret Service protectors before a grand jury. (XDG, p 4A, 7/17/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 25 | Two government officials revealed that special prosecutor Kenneth Starr had subpoenaed President Clinton to testify before a federal grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 28 | Monica Lewinsky was given blanket immunity from prosecution in exchange for grand jury testimony in the investigation of her relationship with President Clinton. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 29 | President Clinton reaches an agreement with Kenneth Starr to provide grand jury testimony on closed-circuit television in the Monica Lewinsky case. (XDG, p 4A, 7/29/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 04 | Turning aside an urgent White House appeal, Chief Justice William H Renquist clears the way for prosecutors to question White House lawyers about their advice to President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case. (XDG, p 4A, 8/04/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 06 | Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8-1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Clinton. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee voted to cite Attorney General Janet Reno for contempt of Congress for her refusal to turn over reports recommending that she seek an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund-raising. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 20 | Monica Lewinsky went before a grand jury for a second round of explicit testimony about her White House trysts with President Clinton. (XDG, p 4A, 8/20/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 04 | During a visit to Ireland, President Clinton said the words, "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, describing his behavior as indefensible. (XDG, p 4A, 9/04/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 10 | President Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 11 | Congress released Kenneth Starr's report that offered graphic details of President Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and leveled accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 12 | The White House responded to Kenneth Starr's graphic report on President Clinton by calling it "a hit-and-run smear campaign". (XDG, p 4A, 9/12/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 16 | In his first news conference since the release of Kenneth Starr's graphic report, President Clinton said he'd told "the essential truth" about his affair with Monica Lewinsky; as for whether he might resign, Clinton responded that "Americans want me to go on". (XDG, p 4A, 9/16/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 21 | President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony was publicly broadcast; in it, Clinton tussled with prosecutors over "the truth of my relationship" with Monica Lewinsky. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 22 | Congressional Republicans worked to snuff out new talk of punishment for President Clinton short of impeachment, an idea floated by Democrats as poll numbers showed that most Americans did not want Clinton removed from office. (XDG, p 4A, 9/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 30 | A U.S. General Accounting Office audit of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his predecessor, Robert Fiske, showed they had spent more than $40 million investigating President Bill Clinton -- from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 08 | The US House of Representatives triggers an open-ended impeachment inquiry against President Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats joined majority Republicans in opening the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings. (XDG, p 4A, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 17 | The public hears Monica Lewinsky's voice for the first time as the House Judiciary Committee releases 22 hours of tape recordings secretly made by Linda Tripp. (XDG, p 4A, 11/17/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 19 | Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 27 | Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading." | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 03 | Republicans jettisoned campaign fund-raising from their impeachment inquiry, clearing the way for a historic House Judiciary Committee vote over President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky and his effort to cover it up. (XDG, p 4A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 08 | Struggling to stave off impeachment, President Clinton's defenders forcefully plead his case before the House Judiciary Committee. (XDG, p 4A, 12/08/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 09 | Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee drew up four articles of impeachment against President Clinton, all stemming from his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky and long campaign to cover it up. (XDG, p 4A, 12/09/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 12 | The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth and final article of impeachment against President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 13 | With a grave impeachment thread looming, President Clinton told a news conference in Jerusalem he would not resign, and insisted he did not commit perjury. (XDG, p 4A, 12/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 16 | The House delayed a debate set to begin the next day on four articles of impeachment against President Clinton. (XDG, p 4A, 12/16/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 17 | House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston shocked fellow Republicans by admitting he had extramarital affairs. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 18 | The House of Representatives began debate on four articles of impeachment against President Clinton. | Ref: 70 |
- 1999
| Jan 08 | By a unanimous vote, senators formally ratified the rules for President Clinton's impeachment trial. (XDG, p 4A, 1/08/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 09 | Presidential advisors prepare a public and legal defense in President Clinton's impeachment trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, meanwhile, pledged "above all, fairness" to the president. (XDG, p 4A, 1/09/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 10 | Republicans and Democrats disagreed over whether to call witnesses in President Clinton's impeachment trial, with Republicans pressing to hear testimony from Monica Lewinsky and others, and Democrats saying that such testimony could unnecessarily prolong the proceedings. (XDG, p 4A, 1/10/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 16 | Closing three days of opening arguments, House prosecutors demand President Clinton's removal from office, telling a hushed Senate that otherwise the presidency itself may be "deeply and perhaps permanently damaged". (XDG, p 4A, 1/16/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 19 | At President Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate, White House Counsel Charles Ruff opens the defense with ringing statements of Clinton's innocence. (XDG, p 4A, 1/19/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 20 | For a second day, President Clinton's legal team argued its case before the Senate, saying that the House-passed articles of impeachment were "flawed and unfair". (XDG, p 4A, 1/20/2004) | Ref: 85 |
| Jan 21 | Former Senator Dale Bumpers (Sen-D-AR) told the Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton the president was guilty of a "terrible moral lapse" but not of conduct warranting or even permitting his removal from office. (XDG, p 4A, 1/21/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 22 | Robert Byrd (Sen-D-WV) abruptly calls for the dismissal of charges against President Clinton to "end this sad and sorry time for our country". (XDG, p 4A, 1/22/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 24 | House prosecutors interview Monica Lewinsky, a move that triggers fresh partisan convulsions in President Clinton's impeachment trial. (XDG, p 4A, 1/24/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 27 | The Republican-controlled Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton and then voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses, but by margins far short of the two-thirds needed to oust the President. (XDG, p 4A, 1/27/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 29 | The Senate delivered subpoenas for Monica Lewinsky and two presidential advisers for private, videotaped testimony in the impeachment trial. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 01 | Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against President Clinton. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 06 | Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton's impeachment trial. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 08 | The Senate heard closing arguments at President Clinton's impeachment trial. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 09 | The Senate began closed-door deliberations in President Clinton's impeachment trial even though both sides agreed that the two-thirds margin for conviction could not be attained. (XDG, p 4A, 2/09/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 10 | Resigned to losing their case, House prosecutors said public opinion polls made a stronger impression on senators than any evidence that President Clinton committed high crimes and misdemeanors. (XDG, p 4A, 2/10/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 14 | John Ehrlichman, American presidential assistant during Nixon administration, Watergate figure, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 03 | Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 12 | U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 12 | A jury in Little Rock AR acquits Susan McDougal of obstructing Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Whitewater inquiry and deadlocked on two other charges, causing a mistrial. (XDG, p 4A, 4/12/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 30 | Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to the impeachment of President Clinton, was charged in Maryland with illegal wiretapping. (Prosecutors later dropped the charges). | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 31 | Elliot L Richardson Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973), best known for his refusal to obey President Richard M. Nixon's order to fire a special prosecutor, dies. | Ref: 70 |
- 2000
| Apr 13 | President Clinton, during a question-and-answer session with newspaper editors, heatedly said "I'm not ashamed" about being impeached and "I'm not interested" in being pardoned for any alleged crimes in the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Whitewater investigation. | Ref: 6 |
| May 09 | Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was convicted of extortion schemes to manipulate the licensing of riverboat casinos. | Ref: 70 |
| May 22 | A committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court recommended that President Clinton be disbarred for giving false testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. (Clinton later agreed to give up his Arkansas law license for five years.) | Ref: 6 |
| May 24 | The state of Maryland dismissed its wiretapping case against Linda Tripp after judge disallowed most of Monica Lewinsky's testimony. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 20 | Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 19 | Attorney Charles Ruff, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment trial, died in Washington, D.C., at age 61. | Ref: 64 |
- 2001
| Jan 07 | President-elect George W. Bush's transition team acknowledged that Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez had provided housing and financial aid to an illegal immigrant (Chavez ended up withdrawing her nomination). | Ref: 64 |
| Jan 08 | Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined a quarter of a million dollars for extorting payoffs from businessmen applying for riverboat casino licenses. (Edwards remains out of jail as he appeals his conviction.) | Ref: 64 |
| Jan 19 | In a deal sparing himself possible indictment, President Clinton acknowledged for the first time making false statements under oath about Monica Lewinsky; he also surrendered his law license for five years. | Ref: 70 |
- 2002
| Mar 06 | Independent Counsel Robert Ray issues his final report in which he wrote that former President Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (XDG, p 4A, 3/06/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Apr 11 | U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from businessmen and his own staff. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 24 | The House expelled Ohio Rep. James Traficant, who had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion. | Ref: 70 |
- 2003
| Dec 08 | Bill Janklow (Rep-R-SD) is found guilty of manslaughter for a collision with a motorcycle that killed a motorcyclist. Janklow, a non-repentant speeder, resigned from the House effective January 20, 2004, the day of sentencing. Jail time is a possibility. (USA Today, p 3A, 12/09/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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