Committee for the Re-Election of the President

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 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.^{[citation needed]}

The CRP was also connected, e.g. via personnel overlap, to the earlier group called the White House Plumbers.^{[citation needed]}

Prominent members

John N. Mitchell, Director and former United States Attorney General.
Jeb Stuart Magruder, Deputy Director
Fred Malek, Manager and former Deputy Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Francis L. Dale, Chairman, publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer and owner of the Cincinnati Reds.
Maurice Stans, Finance Chairman and former United States Secretary of Commerce.
Herbert W. Kalmbach, Deputy Finance Chairman and the President's personal attorney.
Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Midwest Finance Chairman and developer of the Miracle-Ear hearing aid.
Judy Hoback Miller, Bookkeeper
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Treasurer and former aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman.
James W. McCord, Jr., Security Coordinator and former director of security at the Central Intelligence Agency.
G. Gordon Liddy, Finance Counsel and former aide to John Ehrlichman.
E. Howard Hunt, Consultant to the White House and retired CIA operative.
Donald Segretti, Attorney involved. Was hired by Herbert Kalmbach.
Fred LaRue, Deputy Director and aide to John Mitchell
Charles Colson, Special Counsel to the President
DeVan L. Shumway, Spokesman
Roger Stone, political operative

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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[Purcell2010-1] 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.

[2] "Committee for the Re-Election of the President Collection: Frederic Malek Papers". Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.

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