The Associated Press reported that his son Thomas Liddy said his father died at the end of his Life, but did not disclose the reason, saying only that it had nothing to do with COVID-19.
Liddy, a former FBI agent and military veteran, served as part of President Nixon’s security detail and election staff 50 years ago, and his recommendations were radical, including assassinating political opponents, kidnapping protest leaders and implementing the “arrest anyone who disobeys” approach. Fortunately, his colleagues in the White House, for the most part, chose to ignore Liddy’s advice.
But he finally did, in June 1972, Liddy organized a group of cadres, infiltrated the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building, trying to steal data from the Democratic Party, as well as the installation of bugging devices in the office of Rui, the results were discovered by the building guards, which is the “Watergate incident” that shocked U.S. history, and eventually led to and Nixon resigned in 1974. In 1974, Nixon resigned.
Liddy was the mastermind of the wiretaps and was convicted of burglary and illegal wiretapping, and served four years and four months in prison, including more than 100 days in solitary confinement.
Liddy’s main motivation for doing so was to combat defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who had tarnished the Nixon administration’s image by leaking black material about the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to the media, and therefore Liddy believed he was “doing the president a favor.
Years later, referring to the Watergate scandal, he said, “I would do it again for my president.”
Because of his strong and determined stance, Liddy became quite a popular celebrity after his release from prison, with his own radio show, aimed of course primarily at the most radical Republican supporters. He also worked as a security consultant, Writer and actor. He does have a distinctive look – thick bushy eyebrows, beard and bald head – that makes him a TV sales pitch, and he is often invited to appear on other people’s shows.
In an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Liddy claimed that Nixon’s problem was that he “wasn’t tough enough” and that tapes of his conversations with top aides should be destroyed.
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