The Watergate scandal that felled Richard Nixon’s presidency had no shortage of colorful, made-for-movie characters. Martha Mitchell. Donald Segretti. Ben Bradlee. Sam Ervin. John Sirica.
Even in this memorable cast, G. Gordon Liddy, who died in March, stood out. A former assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, N.Y., who also served for five years as an FBI agent, Liddy joined the Nixon administration and went on to become a leading member of “The Plumbers,” the secret White House unit dedicated to plugging leaks in the months following the publication of the Pentagon Papers, classified government documents from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that charted the development of America’s military engagement in Vietnam.
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