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The CRP used $500,000 in funds raised to [[United States presidential election, 1972|re-elect President Nixon]] to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars. 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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}} |
The CRP used $500,000 in funds raised to [[United States presidential election, 1972|re-elect President Nixon]] to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars. 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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}} |
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The abbreviation CREEP was derisively applied to the CRP as a nickname by Nixon's opponents; the pejorative became popular due to the Watergate scandal.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=y7RoHrgX7yAC&pg=PT289 ''100 Mistakes that Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World'', by Bill Fawcett, Penguin, October 5, 2010, page 289.]</ref> |
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The Committee for the Re-Election of the President (also known as the Committee to Re-elect the President), officially abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP,[1] was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon in his 1972 re-election campaign.
History
Planning began in late 1970 and an office opened in the spring of 1971. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds, and was involved in the Watergate scandal.[2]
The CRP used $500,000 in funds raised to re-elect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars. 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.[citation needed]
Prominent members
- Charles Colson, Special Counsel to the President.
- Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Midwest Finance Chairman and developer of the Miracle-Ear hearing aid.
- Francis L. Dale, Chairman, publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer and owner of the Cincinnati Reds.
- E. Howard Hunt, Consultant to the White House and retired CIA operative.
- Herbert W. Kalmbach, Deputy Finance Chairman and the President's personal
- Fred LaRue, Deputy Director and aide to John Mitchell.
- G. Gordon Liddy, Finance Counsel and former aide to John Ehrlichman.
- James W. McCord, Jr., Security Coordinator and former director of security at the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Jeb Stuart Magruder, Deputy Director.
- Fred Malek, Manager and former Deputy Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Judy Hoback Miller, Bookkeeper.
- John N. Mitchell, Director and former United States Attorney General.
- Donald Segretti, Attorney involved. Was hired by Herbert Kalmbach.
- DeVan L. Shumway, Spokesman
- Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Treasurer and former aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman.
- Maurice Stans, Finance Chairman and former United States Secretary of Commerce.
- Roger Stone, political operative
See also
References
- ^ Joan Hoff (2010). L. Edward Purcell (ed.). Richard Milhous Nixon. Vol. Vice Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary. Infobase Publishing. p. 351. ISBN 978-1-4381-3071-2.
- ^ "Committee for the Re-Election of the President Collection: Frederic Malek Papers". Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
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