CHRONOLOGY

• – Richard Nixon is elected president.

• – Warren E. Burger is appointed chief justice of Supreme Court.

• – Nixon vetoes child care bill.

• – Nixon campaign aides are arrested at Watergate.
• – Nixon is reelected president.

• – Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford becomes president.
• – Ford pardons Nixon.

• – Jimmy Carter is elected president.

• – Regents of University of California v. Bakke.