| 2026-06-25 | Vance Calls Watergate 'a 12-Hour News Story' from the Nixon Library, Casts Nixon as a Deep-State Victim
3 src J.D. Vance · Richard Nixon · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-08 | Ford Issues Full Pardon to Nixon for All Watergate Crimes, Ensures No Criminal Accountability
3 src Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President
3 src Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-05 | Nixon Releases Smoking Gun Tape Under Supreme Court Order, Political Support Collapses Completely
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · House Judiciary Committee · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-27 | House Judiciary Committee Approves Three Articles of Impeachment Against President Nixon
3 src House Judiciary Committee · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-24 | Supreme Court Rules 8-0 in United States v. Nixon: President Must Surrender Tapes
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Richard Nixon · Leon Jaworski · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Edmund Muskie |
| confirmed |
| 1974-07-01 | William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System
3 src Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Treasury · Saudi Arabia | | confirmed |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed
3 src Henry Kissinger · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · United States · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign
3 src Richard Nixon · American Farm Bureau Federation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Clement Zablocki |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox
3 src Leon Jaworski · Robert Bork · Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox | | confirmed |
| 1973-10-20 | Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon Fires Special Prosecutor Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus Resign in Protest
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Robert Bork · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy
3 src CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger |
| confirmed |
| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Senate Watergate Committee | | confirmed |
| 1973-07-16 | Butterfield Reveals White House Taping System: Nixon's Executive-Privilege Refusals Trigger Defining Separation-of-Powers Crisis
2 src Richard Nixon · Sam Ervin · Archibald Cox |
| confirmed |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency"
6 src John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public
3 src Sam Ervin · Howard Baker · Senate Watergate Committee · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power
3 src Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1972-05-02 | J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo
3 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-10-21 | Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo
4 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents
3 src Richard Nixon · John Dean · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses
3 src Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · Arthur Burns | | confirmed |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon's New Economic Policy: Unilateral Price Controls, Gold-Window Closure, and 10% Import Surcharge Demonstrate Peak Imperial Presidency
3 src Richard Nixon · John Connally · Arthur Burns · Paul Volcker · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One"
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1971-06-13 | Pentagon Papers Published Revealing Systematic Government Deception About Vietnam War
6 src Daniel Ellsberg · New York Times · Washington Post · Richard Nixon · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-04-03 | Nixon Reverses DOD Military Abortion Policy; Buchanan Memo Documents Abortion as Catholic Voter Strategy
5 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-29 | William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1970-12-31 | Clean Air Act of 1970 Creates EPA and National Air Quality Standards Despite Industry Opposition
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · National Coal Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-12-29 | Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · AFL-CIO · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-12-02 | Nixon Creates Environmental Protection Agency Consolidating Federal Environmental Authority
5 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects
3 src Richard Nixon · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-06-22 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1970-04-22 | First Earth Day Mobilizes 20 Million Americans, Launches Modern Environmental Movement
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News" — the Nixon-era blueprint for Fox News
4 src Roger Ailes · H.R. Haldeman · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance
3 src Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-05-09 | Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak
3 src Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason
4 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
3 src National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Earl Warren · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1953-08-13 | Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · NAACP | | confirmed |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage
3 src Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |