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G. Gordon Liddy Dies: Watergate Felon Who Went On To Showbiz Career Was 90
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deadline.comG. Gordon Liddy, a central Watergate figure who spent more than four years in prison but went on to appear in a number of TV series, a few films and hosted a radio talk show for two decades, died Tuesday in Virginia, his son Thomas told media outlets.
He was 90.Unrepentant till the end, Liddy led the “Plumbers,” President Nixon’s secret White House group, but was not among those caught burglarizing the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in summer 1972.
Still, he was tried on conspiracy and burglary charges as the mastermind of the scheme. Also convicted of refusing to testify at the Watergate hearings, he served more than 51 months in federal prison.He famously did not implicate Nixon, but the 37th president
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