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embarrassing when it surfaced during the 1960 Presidential election.
Nixon vowed revenge against the Democrats, and later discovered that
Democratic Party Chairman Lawrence F. O’Brien had been secretly
retained by Hughes. Nixon sent a memo to Chief of Staff H. R.
Haldeman, in January, 1971, to get his Special Counsel Charles Colson
to get the proof so that they could expose him. It was believed that the
second break-in at the Democratic National Committee on June 16-17,
1972, was to retrieve any derogatory information the Democrats had on
the Republicans, but it was later revealed that the main goal was to
place a bug on the frequently used phone that was in the area of the
DNC that housed the offices of R. Spencer Oliver, his secretary, and
the Chairman of the State Democratic Governors organization.In March, 1974, financier Robert Vesco told CBS’s Walter Cronkite in
an interview, that six months before Watergate, a group had come to
him who “were going to attempt to get initial indictments of some high
officials using this as a launching board to get public opinion in their
favor and using the press media to a great degree. The objective was
to reverse the outcome of the public election.” There had been an
article in the Washington Post pertaining to a secret contribution to the
Republican Party, and this group of Democrats had went to him,
seeking more information to use against Nixon. The three people that
Vesco dealt with, “were names that everyone would recognize (who)
held extremely high posts in past Administrations.” Vesco told New
York Times writer Neil Cullinan, that Watergate was intentionally
created to stop Nixon.Nixon aide Bruce Herschenson said that the Watergate plot was
deliberately sabotaged “by a non-elected coalition of power groups.”
Former CIA agent, James W. McCord, Jr., the security chief for the
Committee to Re-Elect the President, has been accused of being a
double agent, and used to bring Nixon down by sabotaging the break-
in at the Watergate Hotel.There is evidence to believe that the police had been tipped off on the
night of the break-in. Detective Lt. Carl Shoffler, and three other
officers, who usually went off duty at midnight, just happened to stay
on for the next shift, and was parked just a minute away from the hotel
complex. When the security guard, Frank Wills, found the tape on the
door, and called the police, it was those officers who came