• Source: Committee for the Re-Election of the President

The Committee for the Re-election of the President (or the Committee to Re-elect the President, CRP, but often mocked by the acronym CREEP) was, officially, a fundraising organization of United States President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign during the Watergate scandal. In addition to fundraising, the organization also engaged in political sabotage against Nixon's opponents, the various Democratic politicians running in the election.




History


Planning began in late 1970 and an office opened in the spring of 1971. Besides its re-election activities, CRP employed money laundering and slush funds, and was involved in the Watergate scandal.
The CRP used $500,000 in funds raised to re-elect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars. 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 (Watergate Seven), were indicted over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up.
The acronym CREEP became popular due to the Watergate scandal.




Prominent members


Charles Colson, special counsel to the President
Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Midwest finance chairman; developer of the Miracle-Ear hearing aid
Francis L. Dale, chairman; publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer; owner of the Cincinnati Reds
E. Howard Hunt, consultant to the White House; retired CIA operative
Herbert W. Kalmbach, deputy finance chairman; President Nixon's personal attorney
Fred LaRue, deputy director; aide to John Mitchell
G. Gordon Liddy, finance counsel; former aide to John Ehrlichman
Clark MacGregor, chairman
Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy director
Fred Malek, manager, former Deputy Undersecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
James W. McCord, Jr., security coordinator; former director of security at the Central Intelligence Agency
Judy Hoback Miller, bookkeeper
John N. Mitchell, director; former United States Attorney General
Donald Segretti, political operative
DeVan L. Shumway, spokesman
Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., treasurer; former aide to White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman
Maurice Stans, finance chairman; former United States Secretary of Commerce
Roger Stone, political operative




See also


Young Voters for the President
White House Plumbers




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