Ehrlichman speaks with Judge Matthew Byrne about the FBI Director position. Byrne is currently presiding over the Daniel Ellsberg criminal trial.

Gray’s nomination for FBI Director is withdrawn.

Hugh Sloan tells Woodward and Bernstein that around $75,000 was transferred from Stan’s safe to LaRue after the break in. A Justice Department official tells Woodward the prosecutors are looking at all the money from the secret fund.

Dean continues his meetings with the prosecutors where he talks more about money and about Patrick Gray.

After laying the groundwork for several days, Magruder comes clean to his lawyers who tell him he’s in a bad spot and has no choice but to try and get the best deal possible.

Magruder begins meeting with the prosecutors who by this time are only interested in what he has on Mitchell since Dean was already cooperating (although Magruder does not yet know this).

Magruder’s deal is set. He’ll plead guilty to perjury.

Having conducted the meetings with Dean and Magruder in secret, the prosecutors finally fill in Assistant Attorney General Henry Peterson and others what they’d learned. Peterson informs Kleindienst who has just learned of Magruder’s cooperation from Ehrlichman.

Ehrlichman reports to Nixon that Magruder will implicate Mitchell and Dean.

Ehrlichman and Nixon are worried that Hunt may tell all about the Plumbers. They are also worried about what Dean is saying. Both agree they’ll need to talk Kleindienst out of calling for a special prosecutor.

Throughout the weekend, Nixon, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman discuss options. They decide Mitchell and Dean will have to go, but believe that won’t be enough. Haldeman says he’ll resign if necessary, but leaves it to the President.

Dean is summoned to President’s private office where Dean tells Nixon all of them are in serious trouble. Dean says he’s ready to resign. Nixon also tries to convince Dean that the first time he’d heard about how bad Watergate had gotten was during their March 21 conversation. Dean gets the feeling that their conversation is being recorded.

Magruder calls Mitchell to tell him he’s going to cooperate. The two colleagues wish each other good luck.

A Post editor claims the Los Angeles Times says the White House will announce high level officials will be named as having participated in political espionage and sabotage without Nixon’s approval. Woodward contacts Felt/Deep Throat who says Dean and Haldeman will resign. The Post, however, is unsure how to handle this revelation.

Nixon announces to the press he is now personally conducting an investigation, and has made significant progress towards finding the truth. He says he met with Kleindienst and Henry Peterson to determine the next course of action. He also spoke with Ervin and Baker to reach an agreement for White House participation in the Senate’s investigation. He hopes that no current or previous member of his administration that participated will receive immunity. Ziegler declares all of his previous comments related to Watergate should now be considered “inoperable.”

A source inside CRP tells Woodward that Magruder had gone to the prosecutors on April 14 and given information on Dean and Mitchell pinning much of the break in and payoffs on them. A White House official confirms it will likely mean jail time for Mitchell and Dean.

After failing to reach Dean directly, Bernstein speaks with a friend of Dean who tells him Dean will not go down for the actions of others. He tells Bernstein to look into Nixon’s statement and says finding out what happened on March 21 is important. He says Dean didn’t do anything without someone else telling him first. Finally, the friend says the so called “Dean Report” of the investigation was a myth and any facts Dean gathered were twisted.

The New York Times reports Mitchell had told others he’d seen multiple proposals to bug the Democrats in 1972, but both he and Dean had rejected them.

Charles Colson turns over evidence implicating Dean to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

As the Senate investigation continues, they learn more details about GEMSTONE from Sally Harmony, Liddy’s secretary. More damaging information comes from Kalmbach as he outlines the payoff process he’d worked out with Dean and Ehrlichman.

Nixon calls Dean from Key Biscayne and pretends everything is fine between them hoping Dean will still feel part of the team and change his mind about turning on them. This is the last conversation they will ever have.

Nixon tells Ehrlichman that the Justice Department notified Judge Byrne, the judge in the Ellsberg case about the Plumbers. Nixon tells Ehrlichman he’ll have to take a leave of absence. Nixon then learns the New York Times is onto the story that Gray destroyed evidence from Hunt’s safe.

Bernstein again speaks to Dean’s associate who says Dean had told Nixon on March 21 that there was cancer that needed to be removed. The only option was for Nixon’s men to go to the prosecutors and face jail time. Nixon, however, sided with Haldeman and Ehrlichman and wanted to minimize losses by making Dean the scapegoat.

The New York Times learns from Senate Committee member Lowell Weicker that FBI Director Gray destroyed documents from Howard Hunt’s White House safe including a dossier on Senator Edward Kennedy. Felt/Deep Throat contacts Woodward directly and confirms the story.

After admitting to destroying documents related to Watergate, Gray steps down as acting FBI Director. Mark Felt is acting director for a few hours before Nixon appoints William Ruckelshaus as the new acting director. Ruckelshaus had been leading the EPA and only agreed to accept the position if no one involved was spared prosecution.

The presiding judge at the trial of Daniel Ellsberg (who leaked the Pentagon Papers) says he’s learned that Hunt and Liddy were also responsible for the burglary of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist.

Nixon meets with newly appointed Attorney General Elliot Richardson and tells him to investigate Watergate thoroughly no matter where it leads. Nixon says he’s innocent so there’s nothing to worry about.

John Dean, in New York being grilled by the grand jury investigation Mitchell and Stans involvement with Robert Vesco’s campaign contributions, receives a phone telling him he’s been fired.