TIMELINE
1953 George H W Bush secret CIA agent – discovered in 2006
1963 Bush secret CIA agent - discovered in 1975
1969 King calls WH and they set up Townhouse Operation
1970 E Howard Hunt’s proforma resignation from the CIA
1971
Nixon makes Bush US Ambassador to UN (- January 1973)
Feb 10 - Butterfield and SS install microphones in the Oval Office and on White House phones – on Nixon’s order.
June 13 – The Pentagon Papers was published
June 24 – Bush calls John Dean
September 9 - The Fielding Office break-in
1972
February – Townhouse in a newspaper
March 1 - AG John Michell resigns – takes over CRP (Committee Re-Elect President)
April – Bailley investigation began
May - The first Watergate break-in
June 17 - The second Watergate break-in
June 20 - A Woodward article “A GOP aide is among the Burglars”
June 23 - The ‘Smoking Gun’ meeting is taped – Dean/Nixon
August 1 - The first Woodward article: 25.000 dollar check in Burglar bank
September 29 – W Post: Mitchell used secret fond for intel gathering
October 10 – W Post: Political spying on DNC on behalf of Nixon
November 11 - Nixon re-elected with more than 60% of the votes
December - VP Agnew accused of several charges
1973
January 8 - Watergate Trial begins
January 19 - Nixon made Bush Chair of the Republican National Committee ‘with a nod’. (- Sept 1974) – on Bush’s request
January 30 - 1973 – Liddy and McCord are convicted
March 19 - Weicker argues to subpoena WH officials to appear before the Committee
March 20 - Bush suggests that Nixon lets Dean testify
March 21 - Dean sets the trap for Nixon – The ‘Cancer’ narrative
April 10 - Gleason meeting with Weicker – warning about Townhouse
April 30 - Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman & Kleindienst resigned
May 4 - Haig became Chief of Staff
May 11-13 - Kissinger to Bilderberg meeting in Sweden
May 17 - Watergate Committee begins televised hearings
May 18 - Cox appointed Special Prosecutor
May - Wiretaps became known
June 3 - Dean ‘testifies’ = tells a lot of lies
June 13 - W Post claims a memo to Ehrlichman describes the psychiatrist break-in
July 13 - Butterfield testifies that Nixon has recorded all conversations in Oval Office
July 17 - Nixon orders the taping system disconnected
July 20 - “Saturday Night Massacre”
July 23 - Nixon refuses to hand over the WH tapes
September 3 - Rogers resigned
September 22 - Kissinger was named Secretary of State
October - Agnew forced to resign
October 6 – October 25 - Yom Kippur war
October 20 - Nixon orders Cox fired – and both AG and Deputy AG resign in protest. Impeachment is discussed in Congress
November 1 - Jaworski appointed Special Prosecutor
December 6 - Ford installed as VP
December 7 - WH can’t explain ‘18½ minute gap’
1974
April 30 - WH hands over 1.200 pages of transcripts
May 9 - Impeachment hearings begin
July 24 - Supreme Court ruled that Nixon must hand over the tapes
July 27 - House Judiciary passes the first of three articles of impeachment
August 8 - Nixon resigned
September (- December 75) - Poppy Bush nominated Chief of the US Liaison Office to the People’s Republic of China
December 10 - The Kissinger Report, NSSM200 (National Security Study Memorandum)
1975
November 1 - Kissinger informed Bush he was about to become CIA director.
1976
January - Ford named Poppy Bush CIA director (- January 1977)
May - Woodward published ‘Final Days’ – and Haig sent Nixon a telegram that he was not a source.
1981
January - ( - January 1989) Bush VP under Reagan
1989
January, Bush President of the US (- January 1993)