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...wiretap program, itself of debatable merit, indeed should not have become entangled in the Watergate controversy?and need not have if the White House had more closely controlled its plumber team...
This pins down the identity of the bosses of the plumber team. By saying
...Nixon men, meanwhile, were also looking ahead to the contest with whoever the Democratic candidate might be. As early as February, Plumber Liddy was again promoting wiretap ping plans. He had charts drawn up illustrating how to organize an eavesdropping campaign against the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Miami Beach convention headquarters of the Democratic candidates...
Raffish. Miles' appearance was a star turn. Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury. Justice of the Peace Mulford Winsor IV, a plumber when he is not sitting on the bench, was so unnerved that he had to start the oath twice...
...recent Indian move for self-determination. On the face of it, he hardly seemed to have a case. Dick Wilson was duly elected by the Sioux, as was the 20-member council, which he heads. But AIM has accused Wilson-a mixed blood who was previously a plumber-of nepotism, political patronage and corruption in his administration. Reported TIME'S Woodbury: "Accounting is lax, and the considerable amount of money that passes through tribal hands, often for loosely defined programs, makes corruption almost a way of life in Indian government...