George Gordon Liddy was the chief operative for the
White House PlumbersThe White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, were a covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media...
unit that existed from July–September 1971, during
Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
's presidency. Separately, along with
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, Liddy organized and directed the Watergate burglaries of the
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headquarters in the Watergate building in May and June 1972. After five of Liddy's operatives were arrested inside the DNC offices on June 17, 1972 subsequent investigations of the
Watergate scandalThe Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement...
led to President's Nixon's resignation in August 1974. Liddy was convicted of burglary,
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and refusing to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He served nearly fifty-two months in federal prisons.
Liddy later joined with
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for a series of popular debates on various college campuses and similarly worked with
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in the late 1990s. Liddy is currently a radio talk show host. His radio show as of 2009 is syndicated in 160 markets by Radio America and on both
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and
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stations in the United States. He has been a guest panelist for
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in addition to appearing in a cameo role or as a guest celebrity talent in several television shows.
Youth, family, education
Liddy was born in Brooklyn, New York to Sylvester James Liddy and Maria Liddy; his maternal grandfather was of Italian descent. Liddy was raised in
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and
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. He was named for George Gordon Battle, a
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and
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DA nominee who had mentored Liddy's father.
Liddy spent grades 1 through 3 at the Academy of the Sacred Heart. He was enrolled in the fourth grade at SS. Peter and Paul parochial school. He was enrolled in St. Aloysius parochial school where he entered the sixth grade in September 1941. In 1944, Liddy graduated from St. Aloysius parochial grammar school. In September 1944 Gordon Liddy entered St. Benedict's Prep. School in
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and graduated from St. Benedict's in June 1948, at seventeen.
College, military, joins FBI
He was educated at
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, graduating in 1952. Following graduation, Liddy joined the
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, serving for two years as an
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officer during the
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. He remained stateside for medical reasons. He returned to New Jersey in 1954 to study
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at
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, earning a position at the Fordham University Law Review. After graduating law school in 1957, he went to work for the
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(FBI) under
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. His work at the agency prompted a supervisor to describe him as "a wild man" and a "superklutz". At age 29, Liddy became the youngest Bureau Supervisor at FBI national headquarters in
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, earning multiple commendations from Hoover. He left the FBI in 1962 to practice international law in
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.
Liddy worked as a lawyer in
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and a prosecutor in
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. In 1966, he organized the arrest and unsuccessful trial of
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. As an assistant district attorney, he once fired a pistol into the courtroom ceiling during jury summation. He ran unsuccessfully for the post of District Attorney and then for the
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in 1968 (losing the Republican primary narrowly to
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), but used his political profile to run the presidential campaign of
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in the 28th district of New York.
White House years
In 1971, after serving in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 campaign, the
Committee to Re-elect the PresidentThe Committee for the Re-Election of the President, abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration...
(officially known as CRP or CREEP), in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House "
PlumbersThe White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, were a covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media...
" unit, which had been created in response to various damaging leaks of information to the press. At CRP Liddy concocted several plots, some far-fetched, intended to embarrass the
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opposition. These included kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to
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during the
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(which at the time was planned for San Diego), as well as luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in
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where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with prostitutes. Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected by
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, but a few were given the go-ahead by Nixon Administration officials, including the break-in at
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's psychiatrist's office in
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. Ellsberg had leaked the
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to the
New York Times. At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel.
Watergate burglaries
Liddy was the Nixon Administration liaison and leader of the group of five men who broke into the headquarters of the
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at the
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. The purpose of the break-in was never conclusively established. Liddy did not actually enter the
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; rather, he admitted to supervising the break-in from a hotel across the street.
For this, which he coordinated with
E. Howard HuntEverette Howard Hunt, Jr. was an American intelligence officer and writer. Hunt served for many years as a CIA officer. Hunt, with G...
, Liddy was convicted of
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, burglary and illegal wiretapping. Liddy was sentenced to a 20-year prison term and was ordered to pay $40,000 in fines. He began serving the sentence on January 30, 1973. On April 12, 1977 President
Jimmy CarterJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
commuted Liddy's sentence to eight years, "in the interest of equity and fairness based on a comparison of Mr. Liddy's sentence with those of all others convicted in Watergate related prosecutions", leaving the fine in effect. Carter's commutation made Liddy eligible for parole as of July 9, 1977. Liddy was released on September 7, 1977 having served a total of four and a-half years of actual incarceration.
After prison
In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography, titled
Will, which sold more than a million copies and was made into a television movie. In it he states that he once made plans with Hunt to kill journalist Jack Anderson, based on a literal interpretation of a Nixon White House statement "we need to get rid of this Anderson guy". In the mid 1980s Liddy went on the lecture circuit and was listed as the top speaker in the college circuit in 1982 by the
Wall Street Journal. He later joined with
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proponent
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on a series of debates which were popular on the college circuit as well; Leary had once been labeled by Liddy's ex-employer Richard Nixon as "the most dangerous man in America." Liddy remained in the public eye with two guest appearances on the 1984-89 television series
Miami ViceMiami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...
, playing the role of "Capt. Real Estate," a character loosely based on himself. In
Miami Vice, he acted with John Diehl, who would later go on to portray Liddy himself in
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's 1995 movie
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, making him one of the few actors who have acted with their own portrayers. Liddy's other TV guest credits include
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,
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and the short-lived
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. Comic book author
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has stated that the character of The Comedian (Edward Blake) from his graphic novel
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was based in part on Liddy.
In the early 1980s Liddy joined forces with former
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Police Officer and co-owner of The Protection Group, Ltd.,
Thomas E. Ferraro, Jr., to start up a private security and
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firm called, G. Gordon Liddy & Associates. The firm was not a success, however and it filed for bankruptcy on November 12, 1988.
In 1992, Liddy emerged to host his own talk radio show. Less than a year later, its popularity led to national syndication through
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's
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Network and later on, Radio America, in 2003.
In addition to
Will the nonfiction books
When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country (2002),
Fight Back! Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style (2006, with his son Cdr. James G. Liddy, J. Michael Barrett and Joel Selanikio), Liddy has published two novels:
Out of Control (1979)
The Monkey Handlers (1990).
Controversial statements
- August 26, 1994 Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice...
comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests." ... "They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.
- September 15, 1994 If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight
Firefight may refer to:* firefight, a large exchange of bullets between two sides * Firefighting, process of extinguishing destructive flames* A game mode in Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach video games...
, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.
Liddy claimed that his detractors omit some important context:
Additionally, Liddy has said that, as a child, he grew up in a German-American community that included many admirers of Adolf Hitler and that listening to Hitler's speeches "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before." As an adult, however, he came to condemn Nazism and Hitler as "evil."
Acting career
G. Gordon Liddy has acted in several films, including
Street Asylum,
Camp CucamongaCamp Cucamonga is a made-for-television movie that aired on September 23, 1990, on NBC....
,
Adventures in Spying,
Rules of EngagementRules of Engagement is a 2000 American film directed by William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial on charges of disobeying the rules of engagement in a military incident at an American embassy...
. He appeared in the television shows
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,
AirwolfAirwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....
,
18 Wheels of Justice,
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and
MacGyverMacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles...
, had a recurring role on
Miami ViceMiami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...
, guest starred in
Al FrankenAlan Stuart "Al" Franken is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party....
's TV show
LateLine. On April 7, 1986 Liddy appeared at
WrestleMania II as a guest judge for a boxing match between
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(with
Joe FrazierJoseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....
, The Haiti Kid) versus
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(with
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and
Lou DuvaLouis "Lou" Duva is a boxing trainer and manager who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 19 World Champions. The Duva family have promoted boxing events in over 20 countries on six continents...
).
Liddy appeared on a celebrity edition of the
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TV show
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, the shows's series finale, on September 12, 2006 (filmed in November, 2005). At 75 years of age, Liddy was the oldest contestant ever to appear on the show. Liddy beat the competition in the first two stunts, winning two motorcycles custom built by Metropolitan Chopper. In the final driving stunt, Liddy crashed and was unable to finish. He is a commercial spokesman for Rosland Capital selling
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in television commercials.
Personal life
G. Gordon Liddy is Catholic and was married to Frances Liddy (
neeA married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....
Purcell) from Poughkeepsie, New York for 53 years. Prior to her death on February 5, 2010 Liddy's wife was an educator. Liddy and his wife had five children and twelve grandchildren. He currently lives in
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,
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.
External links
- Official Website
- G. Gordon Liddy at NNDB
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