Major Events of Presidency:
- Antiwar movement stages Vietnam "moratorium"
- The Making of a Counter Culture published
- People's Park uprising at Berkeley
- Nixon orders secret bombing of Cambodia and begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam
- "Stonewall Riot" in New York City launches gay liberation movement
- 400,000 people attend the Woodstock concert in Woodstock, N.Y.
- American troops enter Cambodia
- Students killed at Kent State and Jackson State Universities
- Palestinians expelled from Jordan
- The Greening of America published
- Pentagon Papers published
- Supreme Court rules in Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education
- Nixon imposes wage-price freeze and controls
- Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment
- Nixon visits China
- SALT I signed
- United States mines Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam
- "Christmas bombing" in North Vietnam
- Burglary interrupted in Watergate office building
- Native Americans demonstrate at Wounded Knee
- Roe v. Wade ruling strikes down anti-abortion laws
- Paris accords produce cease-fire; America withdraws from Vietnam
- Israeli and Arab forces clash in Yom Kippur War
- Arab oil embargo triggers first American energy crisis
- Watergate Scandal expands
- Impeachment proceedings begin against Nixon
- Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Gerald Ford appointed to replace him
- Nixon resigns; Ford succeeds him