Word: gordon
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...particular, they entertain hopes, however slim, that G. Gordon Liddy, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators who up to now has maintained stoic silence, may talk. Also scheduled to testify this week are former re-election committee officials Robert Reisner, Hugh Sloan Jr., Maurice Stans and Liddy's secretary, Sally Harmony...
...principal purpose was to stop security leaks and to investigate other sensitive security matters. I looked to John Ehrlichman for the supervision of this group. Egil Krogh, Mr. Ehrlichman's assistant, was put in charge. David Young was added to this unit, as were E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. The unit operated under extremely tight security rules. Its existence and function were known only to a very few persons at the White House. These included Messrs. Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean...
This seems to blame Krogh, rather than Ehrlichman, for the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. The job was managed by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy under Krogh's direction. At the same time, Nixon seems to excuse Krogh for an overreaction. But would a President who had approved bag jobs before really disapprove of this...
Dubbed the "plumbers" because of their ostensible job of plugging up new leaks from the White House, these free agents applied their monkey wrenches to the Bill of Rights. At various times, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy directed Cuban provocateurs to beat up Daniel Ellsberg, organized the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office and engineered the break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters...
...fellow conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, sought his help, saying that Attorney General John N. Mitchell and Presidential Counsel John W. Dean III had approved the Watergate breakin...