Committee for the Re-Election of the President

Watergate scandal
Events
Timeline "White House horrors" 1972 presidential election Watergate burglaries White House tapes "Saturday Night Massacre" United States v. Nixon Inauguration of Gerald Ford
People
Watergate burglars James W. McCord, Jr. Bernard Barker Frank Sturgis Virgilio Gonzalez Eugenio Martinez
Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) Jeb Magruder John N. Mitchell Robert Mardian Fred LaRue Kenneth Parkinson Maurice Stans
White House John Dean E. Howard Hunt Egil Krogh Gerald Ford G. Gordon Liddy John Ehrlichman H. R. Haldeman Charles Colson Gordon C. Strachan Alexander Butterfield Richard Nixon Rose Mary Woods
Judiciary Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski John Sirica
Journalists Carl Bernstein Bob Woodward
Intelligence community Richard Helms James Schlesinger L. Patrick Gray W. Mark Felt aka "Deep Throat"
Congress Sam Ervin Howard Baker Peter Rodino
Groups
Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) "White House Plumbers" Senate Watergate Committee The Washington Post

The Committee for the Re-Election of the President (also known as the Committee to Re-elect the President), abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds and was directly and actively involved in the Watergate scandal.

CRP used $500,000 in funds raised for the purpose to re-elect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars after their indictment in September 1972, in exchange for their silence and perjury.^{[citation needed]} This act helped turn the burglary into an explosive political scandal. The burglars, as well as G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures, were imprisoned over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up.

The CRP was also connected, e.g. via personnel overlap, to the earlier group called the White House Plumbers.

Prominent members

• John N. Mitchell, Director
• Fred Malek, Deputy Director
• Jeb Stuart Magruder, Manager
• Francis L. Dale, Chairman
• Maurice Stans, Finance Chairman
• Herbert W. Kalmbach, Deputy Finance Chairman
• Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Midwest Finance Chairman
• Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Treasurer
• James W. McCord, Jr., Security Coordinator
• G. Gordon Liddy, Finance Counsel; former aide to John Ehrlichman.
• E. Howard Hunt, Consultant to the White House
• Donald Segretti, Attorney involved
• Fred LaRue, Deputy Director; aide to John Mitchell
• Charles Colson, Special Counsel to the President
• DeVan L. Shumway, Spokesman
• Roger Stone, political operative