Milestones
Apr 02, 2021
3 minutes
—OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
DIED
G. Gordon Liddy
Watergate planner
ONE COULD ARGUE THAT G. Gordon Liddy, who died March 30 at 90, was always ruthless. According to an oft-repeated anecdote from his childhood, he once ate a rat dragged in by his sister’s cat “to demonstrate to myself my lack of fear.” Thirty years later, while serving in Richard Nixon’s Administration, the lawyer was a member of the White House “Plumbers,” a secret unit tasked with doing whatever it took to stop
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