This day in history...

Richard M. Nixon pardoned by President Gerald Ford

1974: The Watergate Scandal was first brought to public attention by the arrest of five men who, on June 17, 1972, broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate, an office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C. It culminated in the resignation on August 8, 1974, of President Richard M. Nixon, whose administration was implicated in the burglary and its subsequent cover-up and who was ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court to turn over the transcripts of taped conversations that clearly implicated him in the cover-up. On this day Nixon was granted an unconditional pardon by his successor, Gerald R. Ford.