| 1974-09-08 | Ford Issues Full Pardon to Nixon for All Watergate Crimes, Ensures No Criminal Accountability Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Spiro Agnew | | confirmed |
| 1974-08-05 | Nixon Releases Smoking Gun Tape Under Supreme Court Order, Political Support Collapses Completely 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 House Judiciary Committee · Peter Rodino · Robert McClory · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-24 | Supreme Court Rules 8-0 in United States v. Nixon: President Must Surrender Tapes U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Richard Nixon · Leon Jaworski · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Al Ullman · +2 |
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| 1974-07-01 | William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System William Simon · Ahmed Zaki Yamani · Richard Nixon · King Faisal · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed Henry Kissinger · Prince Fahd bin Abdulaziz · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · +2 |
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| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +2 |
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| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy · Edgar Kaiser | | confirmed |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign Richard Nixon · American Mining Congress · National Forest Products Association · American Farm Bureau Federation · +2 |
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| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Jacob Javits · Clement Zablocki · +2 |
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| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox 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 Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Elliot Richardson · William Ruckelshaus · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Salvador Allende · +3 |
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| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Donald Sanders · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1973-07-16 | Butterfield Reveals White House Taping System: Nixon's Executive-Privilege Refusals Trigger Defining Separation-of-Powers Crisis Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · Sam Ervin · Fred Thompson · +1 |
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| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency" 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 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 Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +2 |
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| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power Clifford Case · Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · +1 |
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| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Vernon Walters · L. Patrick Gray · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1972-05-02 | J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility J. Edgar Hoover · L. Patrick Gray · Helen Gandy · Clyde Tolson · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate |
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| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 |
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| 1971-10-21 | Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate · William H. Rehnquist | | confirmed |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents Richard Nixon · John Dean · Charles Colson · H. R. Haldeman · +1 |
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| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses 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 Richard Nixon · John Connally · Arthur Burns · Paul Volcker · +1 |
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| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One" Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects Richard Nixon · Tom Charles Huston · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · +4 |
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| 1970-06-22 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18 Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Attorney General John Mitchell |
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| 1970-01-01 | Roger Ailes Creates Plan for Nixon's "GOP TV" Pro-Administration Network Roger Ailes · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · Joseph Coors | | confirmed |
| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · William Rehnquist · +2 |
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| 1969-05-09 | Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Alexander Haig · J. Edgar Hoover · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · George Wallace · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash Kerner Commission · Governor Otto Kerner Jr. · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
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| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens Marshall Carter · Louis Tordella · National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · +1 |
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| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Earl Warren · Richard Nixon · Law enforcement organizations |
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| 1953-08-13 | Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · Government Contract Committee · NAACP | | confirmed |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |