Timeline (Watergate? The hotel?!?)

June 17, 1972- The Watergate burgleries go off without incident, allowing Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt's team to plant listening devices in the office of DNC Chairman Larry O'Brien. The information retreived is substantive, but not really useful to Nixon or CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President).

October 4, 1972- Hunt and Liddy's team remove the listening devices from O'Brien's office, again without incident. Aside from these men, and Haldeman and Erlirchmann in the White House, no one else knows that the break-ins took place.

November 7, 1972- Nixon defeats McGovern 61-38% in a landslide victory. Democrats retain the Congress, but this is seen as a massive endorsement of Nixon, both on his domestic agenda and his conduct of the war in Vietnam.

January 27, 1973- The Paris Peace Accords are signed, formally ending the US participation in Vietnam. Later in the year, the South Vietnamese government asks that Nixon follow-up on his promise to use air power to support the ARVN (Army of the Republic of VietNam), which he does, despite Congressional disgust for further spending on Vietnam.