The Watergate Scandal In United States History - Plot & Excerpts
Squad cars with flashing lights surrounded the complex. Officers scurried all over the place. E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy were too busy to watch the spectacle. Bernard Barker had their hotel room key, and police could be there soon. They had to leave fast.The two burglary team leaders packed their gear. Hunt told Liddy to go and find himself an alibi. They strolled past unsuspecting police to their cars. Hunt drove a couple of blocks, then walked back to Alfred Baldwin’s room in the Howard Johnson. Hunt called a lawyer to free the burglars. Then he told Baldwin to get out of there. “Does this mean I’m out of a job?” Baldwin asked.1 The lookout then drove McCord’s van, which was loaded with surveillance equipment, to McCord’s suburban Virginia home. McCord’s wife drove him back to the Howard Johnson, and he drove his own car to his home in Connecticut.After leaving the hotel, Hunt rushed to his White House office. He stuffed the burglary gear into his safe and removed ten thousand dollars in cash.
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