Watergate Chronology :: President Richard Nixon

January20,1969 Richard M. Nixon elected the thirty-seventh president of the United put ins 1969 Ehrlichman suggests to Caulfield that he leave the colour House and set up aprivate security commercial enterprise that would provide security to the 1972 Nixoncampaign. This project, Sandwedge, would be similar to the Kennedy securityfirm, Intertel. June 5, 1970With the goal of change magnitude cooperation mingled with various parole agencieswithin the government, a meeting was called in the Oval Office. Those inAttendance Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Helms, and chiefs of theNSA and the DIA. Nixon aide Tom Charles Huston was assigned to action withthe heads of these agencies to facilitate increased cooperation.early July,1970The Huston Plan sent to the President. This plan was an plus made byHuston to a plan endorsed by Hoover and Helms (NSA and DIA as well?).Hustons addition called for electronic surveillance, monitoring activities,surreptitious entries, recruitment o f more(prenominal) campus informants, et al. July 14, 1970Nixon endorses the Huston PlanJuly 27, 1970Hoover visits John Mitchell. Mitchell hears about the Huston plan for the firsttime.Mitchell subsequently goes to Nixon and urges the President to Stop the plan.Nixon later cancelled the plan.September17, 1970Mitchell met with John Dean. Mitchell discussed the brusque job that the FBI wasdoing in the area domestic intelligence. This followed a conversation betweenMitchell, Helms and others from the CIA on a similar topic.September18, 1970John Dean sends a memo to John Mitchell in which he offers a plan forintelligence gathering. "The most appropriate procedure would be to decide on the sign ofintelligence we need, based on an assessment of the recommendations ofthis unit, and then to proceed to extinguish the restraints as neccessary toobtain such intelligence." May 3, 1971Following Nixons decision concerning Laos, Anti-Vietnam activists strain toshutdown Washington by blocking roads with stalled cars, human blockades, dribble cans, and other materials. The protests result in over 12,000 arrests.John Dean headed up the White House intelligence gathering during this protest.June 13,1971The New York Times begins issue of excerpts from "The PentagonPapers". The Pentagon Papers was a 7,000 page document that was first commissionedby Robert McNamara in June of 1967 for future scholars to use. The Paperswere leaked to the Times by Daniel Ellsberg. Although on that point were many crucialdocuments that were not included, the Papers did include documents from theDefense Department, the State Department, the CIA, and the White House. June 14,1971John Mitchell sends a telegram to the New York Times.Arthur Ochs SulzbergerPresident and publisherThe New York Times