Chronology of Events Addressed in the New Tapes Release
January 5, 1973
President Nixon met with Israeli President S. Zalman Shazar, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Chong-pil, Prime Minister of Ireland John Lynch, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Carlos P. Romulo, and the Taiwanese Vice President Yen Chia-Kan during their visits for former President Harry S. Truman’s memorial service
January 8, 1973
US-North Vietnamese negotiations to end the Vietnam War resumed in Paris
January 10, 1973
Watergate break-in trial began
January 20, 1973
Presidential inauguration
January 22, 1973
Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion rights case
January 22, 1973
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died
January 23, 1973
Announcement of Vietnam War settlement agreement
January 23, 1973
Announcement of new Iranian policy on the nationalization of its oil fields
January 27, 1973
Peace treaty ending the Vietnam War signed in Paris
January 30, 1973
James McCord and G. Gordon Liddy convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and wiretapping in connection with the Watergate break-in
January 30, 1973
Senator John C. Stennis was shot during a robbery outside his Washington, DC home
February 7, 1973
US Senate created the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
February 12, 1973
First group of US prisoners of war (POWs) return
February 21, 1973
Israeli Air Force shot down a Libyan Arab Airways Boeing 727 passenger jet |