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Just a reminder, who and when this all started: Wasn't it Mark Twain that said, "history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes" and "....if v****g mattered, they wouldn't let us do it."

APRIL 1971: Nixon announces lifting of over 20-year trade embargo with the People's Republic of China. U.S. Supreme Court upholds school busing to end segregation.

FEBRUARY 1972: Nixon makes historic trip to China, the first by a U.S. president.

MAY 1973: Senate Watergate Committee opens public hearings. Sears Tower completed in Chicago, the world's tallest building.

MAY-SEPTEMBER 1973: White House staff and associated persons testify before Senate committee investigating potential abuses of power and illegal activities conducted by the president or his staff.

JUNE 1973: John Dean testifies and implicates Nixon and his top staff in Watergate break-in and cover-up.
Darn whistle blowers

JULY 1973: Alexander Butterfield testifies to the existence of taped White House conversations; later in July, Nixon refuses to release tapes, citing executive privilege.

SEPTEMBER 1973: John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy indicted for the 1971 burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ellsberg provided Pentagon documents to the New York Times in 1971. Erhlichman and Liddy then created the White House "plumbers" unit to plug security leaks.

OCTOBER 1973: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to charges of income tax evasion. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford nominated to replace Agnew as vice president. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the war. Tho declines. First black mayor of a major southern city, Maynard Jackson, wins e******n in Atlanta, Georgia. Arab oil embargo creates shortages in gasoline and petroleum products and increased prices; lifted in March 1974.
(Funny how we're literally begging for an embargo, now?)

OCTOBER 20, 1973: Atty. Gen. Eliot Richardson and Deputy Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus resign after refusing Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, an episode that became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre."