Five men were arrested after midnight on June 17, 1972 inside a party's national committee headquarters in Washington, carrying cameras and bugging equipment. Whose headquarters had they entered?

The men arrested in the June 1972 break-in were paid out of funds belonging to the president's 1972 campaign organization, whose finance records investigators later traced. What was that organization called?

One of the men arrested inside the Watergate was security coordinator for the president's re-election committee and a former CIA employee. After his conviction he wrote to the trial judge alleging pressure and perjury. Who was he?

The federal district judge who tried the burglars handed down heavy provisional sentences to press them to talk, read a defendant's letter aloud in open court, and later ordered the White House to produce tape recordings. Name him.

In 1973 a Senate select committee held televised hearings on the 1972 presidential campaign that ran for months and questioned White House aides under oath. Which senator chaired it?

On July 16, 1973 a former White House deputy assistant told the Senate committee, answering a routine question, that the president's conversations had been recorded automatically. Who gave that testimony?

In October 1973 Nixon's order to dismiss the special prosecutor cost him an attorney general and a deputy attorney general, who resigned rather than obey it. What is that night of firings and resignations called?

Ordered in October 1973 to fire the special prosecutor who had subpoenaed the tapes, the attorney general refused and resigned instead; his deputy then did the same. Who was the attorney general who resigned?

In late July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee approved three charges against Nixon - obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress - and sent them toward a vote of the full House. What are such formal charges called?

The burglars' silence at their January 1973 trial had been bought with secret payments arranged by White House officials. What did one of the convicted defendants do in March 1973 that broke the case open?

The Senate committee learned in July 1973 that a system had been recording the president's conversations in his offices. What did the special prosecutor and the committee do about that almost at once?

The October 1973 firing of the first special prosecutor set off a public uproar and a flood of angry telegrams to Congress. What did Nixon then do about the special prosecutor's office itself?

On April 29, 1974 Nixon told the country on television that he would give the House Judiciary Committee more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of his taped conversations instead of the tapes. How did the committee and the prosecutor respond?

A subpoenaed recording of a June 20, 1972 conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff turned out to have a gap of about 18 and a half minutes. What did the panel of technical experts appointed by the court conclude?

On a June 23, 1972 tape, H. R. Haldeman proposed "to have Walters call Pat Gray and just say, 'Stay the hell out of this.'" Walters was deputy director of the CIA and Gray was acting director of the FBI. What was the plan?

On March 1, 1974 a federal grand jury indicted seven former Nixon aides for their part in the cover-up and also named the president himself in its work. What was Nixon's status in that indictment?

On August 5, 1974 Nixon released, under court order, a recording made six days after the break-in that showed he had taken part in the cover-up from the start. What happened to his support on the House Judiciary Committee?

In United States v. Nixon the Supreme Court held that a president's general claim that his conversations stay confidential gives way to a specific, demonstrated need for evidence in a pending criminal trial. What did that require Nixon to do?

Chief Justice Burger wrote that "the generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial." Which proceeding was that pending criminal trial?

The Supreme Court's July 1974 order did not reach every recording made in the White House. Which conversations did it actually cover?

The Court directed that the subpoenaed tapes go first to the trial judge, who would listen to them privately before any of the material reached the prosecutors. What was that private inspection for?

The Supreme Court decided United States v. Nixon 8-0 on July 24, 1974, the opinion written by a chief justice Nixon himself had appointed. What did Nixon do in the days right after the decision?

On September 8, 1974 President Ford proclaimed "a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States" committed from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974. What did the proclamation do?

Nixon told the country on August 8, 1974 that he "no longer [had] a strong enough political base in the Congress" and that "I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow." How did his presidency actually end?

Nixon's resignation letter, addressed to the Secretary of State, read in full: "I hereby resign the Office of President of the United States." Henry Kissinger initialed it at 11:35 a.m. on August 9, 1974. What did his initialing do?

Gerald Ford became president on August 9, 1974 without ever having run on a national ticket. He had become vice president in December 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned that October. How did he get that office?

Taking the oath on August 9, 1974, Ford told the country, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," and added, "Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men." What was he claiming?

Put these three in order: the House Judiciary Committee approved articles of impeachment; Senate testimony disclosed that the president's conversations were recorded; the special prosecutor was fired and two Justice Department officials quit.

Put these three in the order they happened: Ford pardoned Nixon; Agnew resigned and Ford was confirmed as vice president; Nixon released the June 23, 1972 tape under a court order.

Put these three in the order they happened. 1. The Senate select committee opened its televised hearings 2. Five men were arrested inside the offices they had broken into at the Watergate 3. Nixon won reelection in a landslide