Committee to Re-elect the President
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The Committee to Re-elect the President, known to its members and supporters as CRP but to opponents as CREEP, was a Nixon White House fund-raising organization headed by John N. Mitchell, who had previously served as United States Attorney General. G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt were members of CRP who planned the details of the Watergate break-in. CRP funds, a sum of $500,000 U.S. dollars, were used to pay off the five Watergate burglars after their indictment in September 1972. The link of the break-in back to the President's campaign fund-raising committee turned the burglary into an explosive political scandal. The burglars, as well as Liddy, Hunt, and Mitchell, went to prison over the break-in and their efforts to cover it up, along with other members of the Nixon Administration. Template:US-poli-stubde:CREEP