Wednesday, October 5, 2011

WWII ace and Watergate figure

First saw a Twitter link to this story. I barely remember his name, but his connection to Watergate is clear.

As the Midwest finance chairman of President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, Dahlberg was pulled into the Watergate scandal even though he didn't engage in any wrongdoing. He became linked to the scandal after a check he delivered to the Nixon campaign turned up in a Watergate burglar's bank account, tying Nixon to the break-in.

But how is this for anonymity?

At one point, as the White House tapes later revealed, White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman mentioned Dahlberg's role to Nixon, to which the president responded, "Who the hell is Ken Dahlberg?

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