Ep. 18: Liddy, Watergate's Unguided Missile

G. Gordon Liddy’s salience comes from his unmatched centrality to all major factions participating in this odd drama.   He worked with the White House,  the CIA
 Plumbers, the Cuban Watergate burglars, John Dean and Jeb Magruder, even John Mitchell and Attorney General Richard Kleindeinst.  Moreover, while perhaps duped, Liddy is brutally honest and in his own strange way highly principled.  His recounting of his involvement in Watergate did not emerge until the statute of limitations passed, and he gives the lie to many other accounts, to a great degree with innocence and crazed naïveté.  You cannot make up this character and with Liddy's story, we solve yet another of The Mysteries of Watergate.
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