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Burlar megasync desktop4/17/2023 The most straightforward “hidden dirt” theory is that the burglars were ultimately looking for both financial improprieties as well as trying to uncover any nefarious plans the Democrats might have had to disrupt the Republican convention, possibly mirroring plots that the Nixon campaign operation, CREEP (the Committee to Re-elect the President) had been gaming out. Taken together, it was one of the largest criminal federal cases in a very criminalized decade. Dozens of companies, from Goodyear Tire to American Airlines, also pleaded guilty to charges of illegally financing Nixon’s reelection campaign. Nearly all pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial. By the time the scandal’s flames had finished consuming Richard Nixon’s administration, 69 people had been charged with crimes, including two of Nixon’s Cabinet secretaries, Attorney General John Mitchell and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans. The full scope of Watergate boggles our memory. Yet the reality of the case is something vastly larger than history’s shorthand: a story that began long before the break-in-which occurred 50 years ago this spring-and a cover-up that extended long after the original burglary. Watergate is usually considered shorthand for a story about five burglars at the offices of the Democratic National Committee, caught in the midst of a covert operation to impact the outcome of the 1972 presidential election. In an excerpt from the widely anticipated new book Watergate: A New History, Garrett Graff outlines the leading conjectures about the burglars’ real motives for a crime that would bring down a president. Nixon’s cronies greenlit a plan for a gang of burglars to sneak into the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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