Word: bug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carpeted Bug Sir / Re your Texas "Letterbugs" [April 22]: there's a VW rolling around Portland. Me., with plates that read RUG BUG. It's fully carpeted-on the outside...
...transcripts that the White House provided offer fresh details about the origin of the plan to bug the Democratic national headquarters, as well as precisely what the undercover team was after. At their March 21, 1973 meeting, Dean told Nixon that the operation originated with an order from Haldeman to "set up a perfectly legitimate campaign intelligence operation" within the Nixon re-election committee. In January 1972, White House "Plumber" G. Gordon Liddy came up with an incredible scheme that he said would cost $1 million. According to Dean, it involved "black-bag operations, kidnaping, pro viding prostitutes to weaken...
Dean told Nixon that the bugging team "might have been looking for information about the Democratic conventions." Liddy had earlier informed him that there was a plan ? never carried out ? to bug Democratic Chairman Lawrence O'Brien's hotel suite in Miami. The Liddy operation was a failure from the beginning. The team first tapped the telephone of Democratic Committee Official R. Spencer Oliver. Ehrlichman told Nixon on April 14, 1973, that "what they were getting was mostly this fellow Oliver phoning his girl friends all over the country, lining up assignations." Ehrlichman said that "Liddy was badly...
...that the transcripts lack comic relief. "OK, John," Nixon tells his counsel. "Good night. Get a good night's sleep. And don't bug anybody without asking me? OK?" "I don't think you want to anyway," H.R. Haldeman replies to his commander-in-chief's complaints about how slowly he is making his political problems disappear. "I think you want to end the war and freeze food prices first and then do this." "I wish it were Friday," says Nixon. "Friday is the time to do it," Haldeman concedes...
...Your article "Listening In" [April 8] brought to light the bugging of auto showrooms by dealers. In all fairness, auto dealers should not have to suffer condemnation alone. The funeral industry has been known to bug casket showrooms to find out what survivors could afford to pay for a funeral service...