President Nixon ordered a sixty-day freeze on prices of gasoline and groceries under the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970.
It was the last of the "Phase III" price controls.
On the same day, prosecutors discovered a memo to John Ehrlichman concerning plans to break into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Also, Alexander Butterfield, former Presidential appointments' secretary, met with Senate investigators and revealed the existence of a secret taping system in the White House.
Butterfield had known Ehrlichman and Halderman from his college days. After graduating from college, he became an Air Force officer and retired from that prior to going to work in the White House. In an interview, prior to the public revelation of Deep Throat's identify, he correctly guessed it and the name was published in his interview, although he was not unique in that regard.
The Soviet K-56 with the research vessel Academician Berg killed 27 people.
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