James W. McCord, Jr.

role in Watergate scandal

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  In Watergate scandal: Burglary, arrest, and limited immediate political effect

  ) The fifth, James W. McCord, Jr., was the security chief of the Committee to Re-elect the President (later known popularly as CREEP), which was presided over by John Mitchell, Nixon’s former attorney general. The arrest was reported in the next morning’s Washington Post in an article written…

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  In United States presidential election of 1972: Watergate

  …of security of the CRP, James McCord. The CRP’s campaign director, former attorney general John Mitchell, quickly fired McCord, but the scandal had only begun to erupt. Eleven days later Mitchell fired G. Gordon Liddy, a counsel to the finance committee of the CRP, because Liddy refused to answer FBI…

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  In G. Gordon Liddy: Career

  …that included six burglars and James W. McCord, Jr., the head of security of Nixon’s reelection campaign, which planted bugs and took photos at the DNC office on May 28, 1972. A few weeks later, on June 17, McCord and four burglars broke in again, but this time they were…

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