Thursday, September 15, 2022

Friday, September 15, 1972. Watergate Indictments.

A Federal grand jury indicted the Watergate burglars, E. Howad Hunt, and G. Gordon Liddy.  Richard Nixon met with White House staff attorney John Dean on covering up hte White House role in the Watergate story.  At the meeting, Nixon Chief of Staff H. R. Halderman and Dean also discussed plans to get revenge on Nixon's enemies.

John Dean.

The ARVN regained Quảng Trị after a three-month effort.


The province had been taken in the 1972 Easter Offensive, and in fact it had been the first major North Vietnamese victory in that effort.  The ARVN offensive retook most of the province, but not all of it. The northernmost part of the area would remain in NVA hands until the end of the war.

The province has a large Catholic population and remains an area with several sites important to Vietnamese Catholicism.  During the Communist occupation, a large percentage of the residents of the province became refugess.

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