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The Committee to Re-elect the President, abbreviated CRP but often mocked by the acronym CREEP, was a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's administration. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds and was directly and actively involved in the Watergate scandal.
CRP used US$500,000 in funds raised to reelect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars after their indictment in September 1972, in exchange for their silence and perjury. This act helped turn the burglary into an explosive political scandal. The burglars, as well as G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures, were imprisoned over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up.
The CRP was also connected, e.g. via personal overlap, to the earlier group called the White House Plumbers.
Prominent members
- John N. Mitchell, Director
- Fred Malek, Deputy Director
- Jeb Stuart Magruder, Manager
- Francis L. Dale, Chairman
- Maurice Stans, Finance Chairman
- Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Midwest Finance Chairman
- Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Treasurer
- James W. McCord, security coordinator
- G. Gordon Liddy, political operative
- E. Howard Hunt, political operative
- Donald Segretti, political operative
- Fred LaRue, political operative
- Charles Colson, political operative
- Roger Stone, political operative
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