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The United States presidential election of 1968, the Republican nominee was former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

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July 23 - Nixon approves a plan for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. He has second thoughts a few days later and repeals his approval.

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June 13 - The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers - the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Post will begin publishing the papers later that same week.

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June 17 - Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.

June 19 - Among the Watergate burglars is former attorney general John Mitchell, the head of the Nixon reelection campaign, however he denies any link to the operation.

August 1 - A $25,000 cashier's check, apparently earmarked for the Nixon campaign, wound up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.

October 10 - FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort.

November 7 - However Nixon is still reelected in one of the largest landslides in American political history.

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January 30 - Former Nixon aides are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty.

July 18 - Nixon reportedly orders the White House taping system disconnected.

July 23 - Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor.

October 20 - An event known as the Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon's dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, pressure for impeachment mounts in Congress.

November 17 - Nixon declares, "I'm not a crook," maintaining his innocence in the Watergate case.

December 7 - The White House can't explain an 18 ½-minute gap in one of the tapes.

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July 24 - The Supreme Court rules unanimously that Nixon must turn over the tape recordings of 64 White House conversations, rejecting the president's claims of executive privilege.

July 27 - The House Judiciary Committee passes the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice.

August 8 - Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the country's highest office. He will later pardon Nixon of all charges related to the Watergate case.