Committee for the Re-Election of the President

The Committee for the Re - Election of the President (German Committee for the re-election of the President ) presented itself the goal to ensure the re-election of U.S. President Richard Nixon in the presidential election in 1972. It was led by then- Attorney General John N. Mitchell. Maurice Stans (former Minister of Commerce) was chairman of the Related Financial Committee. The abbreviation officially used by the committee was CRP, during the unveiling of the Watergate scandal, and in the later literature but was mostly the derogatory Apronym CREEP ( with allusion to engl. " To creep " = sneak, undermined or "creep " = repulsive man ) be used.

The other committee members were, among others Gordon Liddy CRP and E. Howard Hunt, who planned the details of the Watergate break-in. The secret fund of about $ 500,000 of the CRP had been planned for the five Watergate burglars or for their silence in 1972. Kenneth Dahlberg was head of the CRP office in Minnesota. He later took a 25,000 -US - dollar donation by the Executive Director of a soybean company, Dwayne Andreas, contrary. From the donation was a cash check, which later at one of the Watergate burglars, Barker, showed up.

One of the arrested Watergate burglars was the security chief of CRP James W. McCord, Jr. But only in 1973 was made public that the CRP -. , And thus the White House - was behind the Watergate break-ins. CRP stands for a whole system of burglary, wire tapping of telephone lines, intimidation, slander and other illegal activities in order to influence the outcome of elections in their favor. The chairman was the publisher Francis L. Dale, who, however, never even came into existence. In fact, CRP was controlled by the White House, because in addition to Attorney General John N. Mitchell, the most important posts of staff of the White House have been busy: Hugh Sloan, Herry Flemming and especially Jeb Magruder. Magruder had to deny all decisions and activities of CRP with the Attorney General John N. Mitchell.

Nixon's personal lawyer and campaign donations Organizer Kalmbach also exerted significant strategic impact on CRP. Kalmbach constituted a part of the election campaign funds available to cause harm to the political opponents of George C. Wallace. Even Charles Colson, Special Adviser to the President, exercised pressure on CRP.

As the investigation slowly focused on CRP, we did everything there to keep out the president. But the four officials Charles Colson, Herbert Kalmbach, Harry Robbins Haldeman and John N. Mitchell belonged to the people closest to Nixon, which heavily loaded him into the public eye and eventually led to his resignation.

• Presidential election in the United States
• Watergate