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George Gordon Liddy
Born November 30, 1930 (1930-11-30) (age 77)
Penalty 20 year imprisonment, later commuted by President Jimmy Carter
Status Released
Occupation Attorney, FBI agent, politician, radio personality
Spouse Frances Ann Purcell
Parents Sylvester J. Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person A radio personality (also known as a radio host or a radio presenter) is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting Liddy and Maria Abbaticchio

George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed during several years of Richard Nixon's Presidency. Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The White House Plumbers or simply the Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24 Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972. Everette Howard Hunt Jr ( October 9 1918 – January 23 2007) was an American Author and spy. The Watergate burglaries, which took place on May 28 and June 17, 1972, have been cited in testimony media accounts and popular works on Watergate as The Democratic National Committee (DNC is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The subsequent cover-up of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974; Liddy served four and a half years in prison for his role in the burglary. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's

Liddy later became an American radio talk show host, actor and political strategist. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Liddy's radio talk show is now syndicated in 160 markets and on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio stations in the United States. Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He has also been a guest panelist for Fox News Channel in addition to appearing in a cameo role or as a guest celebrity talent in several television shows.

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Early years

Liddy was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Sylvester J. Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Liddy and Maria Abbaticchio; his maternal grandfather was of Italian descent. [1] Liddy was raised in West Caldwell, New Jersey and educated at Fordham University. West Caldwell is an Upper-middle class township located in the West Essex area in northwestern Essex County, New Jersey. Fordham University is a private University in the United States, with three campuses located in and around New York City. He was named for George Gordon Battle, a New York City attorney who had mentored Liddy's father.

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. German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately " As an adult, however, he came to condemn Nazism and Hitler as "evil". Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German [2]

He graduated in 1952 and joined the United States Army, serving for two years as an artillery officer at the time of the Korean War, but did not leave the US due to an injury. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the He returned home in 1954 to study law at Fordham, earning a spot on the Law Review. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law) is an institution specializing in Legal education. Fordham University School of Law (commonly known as Fordham Law or Fordham Law School) is a part of Fordham University in the United States Graduating in 1957, he went to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under J. Edgar Hoover. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Postnominal initials

Liddy left the FBI in 1962 and worked as a lawyer in New York City and a prosecutor in Dutchess County, New York. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York Dutchess County is a County located in the US state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. In 1966, he organized the arrest and unsuccessful trial of Timothy Leary. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Timothy Francis Leary ( October 22, 1920 &ndash May 31, 1996) was an American Writer, Psychologist, Futurist He ran unsuccessfully for the post of District Attorney and then for the United States House of Representatives in 1968, but used his political profile to run the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in the 28th district of New York. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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 President (officially known as "CRP" but to opponents known as CREEP), in order to extend the scope and reach of the White House "Plumbers" unit, which had been created in response to various damaging leaks of information to the press. The Committee to Re-elect the President, often abbreviated to CRP or CREEP (an acronym used derisively by critics of the Nixon administration was a Nixon At CRP, Liddy concocted several plots, some far-fetched, intended to embarrass the Democratic opposition. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. These included firebombing the Brookings Institution in Washington, D. The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington D C. (where classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg were being stored), kidnapping anti-war protest organizers and transporting them to Mexico during the Republican National Convention (which at the time was planned for San Diego), and luring mid-level Democratic campaign officials to a house boat in Baltimore where they would be secretly photographed in compromising positions with call girls. The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. Most of Liddy's ideas were rejected, but a few were given the go ahead by Nixon Administration officials, including the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7 1931 is a former American military Analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy Ellsberg had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. The Pentagon Papers is the popular name for a 14000-page top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's internal planning and policy

At some point, Liddy was instructed to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel.

For his role in Watergate, which he coordinated with Hunt, Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping, and received a 20-year sentence. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's He served a total of five and half years in prison, including over 100 days in solitary confinement, before his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002

After prison

In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography, titled Will, which sold more than a million copies and was made into a television movie. The book received reviews that were typically laudatory of Liddy's writing ability and sense of humor, if not of his personal character. 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". Jackson Northman Anderson ( October 19, 1922 &ndash December 17, 2005) was an American [3][4] In the mid 1980s Liddy went on joined lecture circuit, and was listed as the top speaker in the college circuit in 1982 by the Wall Street Jounal. He later joined with fellow ex-con Timothy Leary on a series of debates which were popular on the college circuit as well. Timothy Francis Leary ( October 22, 1920 &ndash May 31, 1996) was an American Writer, Psychologist, Futurist Liddy remained in the public eye with two guest appearances on the 1984-89 television series Miami Vice, playing the role of "Capt. Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. Real Estate," a character loosely based on himself.

Also in the early 1980s Liddy joined forces with former Niles, Illinois Police Officer and co-owner of The Protection Group, Ltd. Niles is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 28848 at the 2007 census , Thomas E. Ferraro, Jr., to start up a private security and countersurveillance firm called, G. Countersurveillance refers to measures undertaken to prevent Surveillance, including Covert surveillance. Gordon Liddy & Associates. The firm was not a success, however, and it filed for bankruptcy on 12 November 1988.

In 1992, Liddy emerged to host his own talk radio show. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Its immense popularity led to national syndication in under a year through Viacom's Westwood One Network and later Radio America in 2003. Radio America is an American Radio network specializing in conservative -oriented talk programming. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The show reflects Liddy's politically conservative viewpoints and highly provocative though engaging style.

In addition to Will and the nonfiction books When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country (2002) and 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) and The Monkey Handlers (1990). Neither novel sold as well as the autobiography.

Contrary to popular belief, Liddy has remained a Roman Catholic throughout his life, but often disagrees with the preachings of the American Catholic Church, particularly during the Vietnam War.

Controversial statements

During Liddy's tenure as a radio talk-show host, many controversial statements have been attributed to him, including causing the release of John Dean's home phone number in 1993 on the radio when Dean was threatening to sue Liddy for defamation and Liddy called Dean's home on the air to only reach his answering machine that announced the phone number. John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) was White House Counsel to U Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Some of his comments led to condemnation by then President Bill Clinton who was under constant attack by conservative talk radio.

Liddy claimed that his detractors omit some important context: [5]

I was talking about a situation in which law enforced agents comes smashing into a house, doesn't say who they are, and their guns are out, they're shooting, and they're in the wrong place. This has happened time and time again. The ATF has gone in and gotten the wrong guy in the wrong place. The law is that if somebody is shooting at you, using deadly force, the mere fact that they are a law enforcement officer, if they are in the wrong, does not mean you are obliged to allow yourself to be killed so your kinfolk can have a wrongful death action. You are legally entitled to defend yourself and I was speaking of exactly those kind of situations. If you're going to do that, you should know that they're wearing body armor so you should use a head shot. Now all I'm doing is stating the law, but all the nuances in there got left out when the story got repeated.

Acting career

Don Johnson (L) and G. Gordon Liddy (R), in the episose "Stone's War".

G. Gordon Liddy has acted in several films, including The Highwayman, Street Asylum, Camp Cucamonga, Adventures in Spying and Rules of Engagement. The Highwayman is an action-adventure themed Television series starring Sam Jones, set in "the near future Camp Cucamonga (Alternate Titles How I Spent My Summer Lights Out is a made-for-television movie that aired on September 23, 1990 on Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American movie starring Samuel L He also appeared in the television shows 18 Wheels of Justice and MacGyver, had a recurring role on Miami Vice, and guest starred in Al Franken's TV show LateLine. MacGyver is an American Adventure Television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the laid-back Miami Vice is an American Television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21 1951 is an Emmy Award –winning American Comedian, Writer, progressive Lateline is an Australian Television news and current affairs program airing weeknights at 1030 pm on ABC1, similar in format to the BBC 's Liddy appeared on a celebrity edition of the NBC TV show Fear Factor on September 12, 2006 (filmed in November, 2005). The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's The fear factor in occupational terminology refers to the increased per-worker productivity resulting from the threat of impending layoffs. 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.

References

  1. ^ Ancestry of G. Gordon Liddy
  2. ^ Media Matters - G. Gordon Liddy: listening to Hitler "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before"
  3. ^ Liddy, G Gordon (1996). Will. St. Martins Press, 208-211. .  
  4. ^ The G. Gordon Liddy Story Continues With Chapter 11 - New York Times
  5. ^ The G. Gordon Liddy Interview - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

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